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Comment by metaphor

2 years ago

Incidentally, appears to be only the second time it's been resubmitted in the month of September. The timing is thematically apt.

> The timing is thematically apt.

What do you mean by that?

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

    Every September (in the 90s) a new cohort of University students would start and gain access to the internet, such as it was. Hence the reference to timing

    • As the Wikipedia article states, it's more about the specific period of late 1993–early 1994 when some large online service providers in the US started providing access to the greater internet, the USENET in particular, and masses of new (and usually clueless wrt established norms and netiquette) internet users flooded newsgroups and forever changed and disrupted their character and culture.

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