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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by nl on Monday May 16, 2022 @09:12AM (#31396641)
Eternal September was Sep 1993. AOL hit the internet in March 1994.

Netscape didn't launch until December 1994 (and the WWW was nothing before that. I subscribed to a mailing list with new sites that were released and I'd visit most new websites on the internet on most days with the Cello browser in my uni labs most days).

AOL users have been there since the beginning of the WWW.

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

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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by CWuestefeld on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:10PM (#31399518)
My recollection is that the AOL event you reference was only making usenet accessible - a point that makes good sense in the context of the eternal September.

But when talking about the WWW, that's a very different story. I think that AOL didn't incorporate a web browser until quite some time after that.

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Re:Almost all searches on my independent search engine are n... by nl on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:52PM (#31405540)
The WWW took off when Netscape shipped in late 1994.

AOL users could use Netscape from the beginning.

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