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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by rezistik on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:35PM (#14465029)
Eternal September is the term for that. When the social site begins to accept too much trash because of it's size.
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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Clubber on Thursday June 01, 2017 @07:15PM (#14465832)
For those that don't know, September was when all the freshmen would get their first access to the non-commercial internet in college. It was a pain because they (we) had to learn all the nuances of how to interact with the people already on it. Newgroups, IIRC, etc. Eternal September is the term for when the internet went commercial in 1995.

Wow that happened 27 years ago. Time does fly.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by krrrh on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:37PM (#14466784)
Not to quibble, but it usually refers to 1993, which was when AOL created a bridge from its proprietary network to USENET.
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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Jaruzel on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:49AM (#14468232)
It's about time we all went back to USENET really.
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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by mmorris on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:03PM (#14466233)
Time does fly, but 1995 was only 22 years ago!
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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Clubber on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:43PM (#14466484)
Hah. Damn rum.
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