September that never ended: All time since September 1993. One
of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual
September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of
netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided
with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts,
and plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable.
These relatively small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within
a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post
to Usenet, nearly overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to
acculturate them; to those who nostalgically recall the period
before hand, this triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of
discussions on newsgroups. See also AOL!.
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