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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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