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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by bigiain on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:03PM (#14699107)
"The eternal September"...
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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by chongli on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:28PM (#14699191)
Which, as it happens, predates the arrival of 56k modems by several years. The author may in fact be one of those who arrived afterwards.

Which all goes to show that people, in general, believe the best time was when they arrived/discovered/attended whatever. In other words, "pull the ladder up after I get to the top."

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by CM30 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:05AM (#14701139)
This is true to a degree (reminds me of the old MAD Magazine adage that "MAD was at its best whenever you first started reading it"), though I feel communities usually have a localised version of Eternal September as well. At least if they get popular.

Eternal September on Usenet would hence be different from Eternal September on Reddit, Facebook or Hacker News.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by alanfranzoni on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:39AM (#14700540)
Indeed. I wasn't on the internet in September 1993. Actually my first modem was a 28.8k around 1994/1995, but I can remember one of my most productive internet eras when I had a 56k around 1997.
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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by nvr219 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:46PM (#14699262)
Eternal September was September 1993... That's like, 2400 baud days
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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by jdietrich on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:05PM (#14699337)
9600 baud modems had just arrived in 1993.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1993/hr159.html

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by nl on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:39PM (#14699829)
I was using a 1200 baud, via SLIRP[1]. In 1994 (I think?) remember cycling into University with a box of 10 1.44M floppy disks to copy Slackware 0.1 so I could install it at home.

The bandwidth of a box of floppy disks on a bicycle was higher.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp

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