Show threadLennart HengstmengelMar 10
@donni #eternalSeptember
Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Feb 27

@kibcol1049

I'm so old, I remember the internet before the dreadful afternoon of #EternalSeptember

Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Feb 9

@stefan

I remember forums and when PHP was created. The golden age of the internet, post #EternalSeptember

Show threadMathiasTCK.bsky.socialJan 31
#EternalSeptember bsky.app/profile/math...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:erghuqe7q3xy5c664tguw7gf/post/3mdor54e4x22z
Show threadMathiasTCK.bsky.socialJan 31
I love the phrase #EternalSeptember to describe the impact of easy internet access. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal... Our previous systems of #FactChecking are insufficient, but we cam create better. Just little things like #AltText can build upon each other.

Eternal September - Wikipedia
Eternal September - Wikipedia

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Jan 20
Back in 1993, I went to get another degree to just to get internet access, which was one of the few ways to get it back then. We had VAX and Unix, both fine platforms, hundreds of students would log in to one CPU from a terminal on campus or the house. We were connected to the world and communications were fast. I remember that's when the entire continent of Australia was connected by a pair of 2MB cables at the time. We had many distributed servers for news, email, IRC, gopher, etc, but it was lightning fast. Engineers at companies put tech documents on ftp servers. The internet was a big world library and the world was free. #JavaScript wasn't invented yet to slow us down or bury us in popups and advertisements. The entire internet was ad-free and advertising was a ban offense.

Then one morning I remember what would be known as #EternalSeptember, thanks to #AOL. And the #CanterSiegel spam happened. And the real cranks invaded. Many of us banned every .com address to regain sanity. This is when investors invaded the internet to hype it up into television quality. At least we still have #Wikipedia, #InternetArchive, and #Mastodon. Watching #Bluesky open up the floodgates to fascists was obvious to those of us who remember the past.
River City Random ☑️Jan 15
I wish #eternalseptember would end and the #aiwinter would get here soon.
jlapoutreJan 11
Seeing this #forkiverse thing emerging in my timeline got me curious and somehow reminds me of the #eternalseptember usenet discussions from the early nineties. Makes me feel old. We did survive at that time, I bet we will again
Brad L. Dec 9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/115673398971761625

I was working for SkyCache. We did satellite usenet and web cache pre-injection, saving ISPs money on transit costs. This lawsuit had a second order effect of dropping transit usage for those same ISPs. They stopped paying for our service.

It was a weird time on the internet. Prior to the lawsuit, a burst of innovation and scaling network capacities to accommodate the demand of P2P apps. With Napster falling and the dotCom bubble bursting all in the same time frame, the industry stagnated for a while. It was unfathomable to think we wouldn't need to keep scaling our network equipment, then overnight, *crickets*.

I think we're about to see the exact same thing happen with datacenters, GPUs, and electricity thanks to AI.

#AI #fuck_ai #eternalSeptember #napster

Martijn van ExelOct 27
#OSM has its own #eternalseptember - it's called highway classification. The most recent reinventions: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/official-classification-of-highways/137263 / https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-motorway-classifications/137119 and a plea to not discuss this ever again https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lets-not-talk-about-highway-classification-in-osm/137150 which, unsurprisingly, also turns into a discussion about highway classification.
Official classification of highways

Hello, in order to allow for a more consistent usage of highway=*, I’d like to propose global tagging of the official, national highway classification. In some countries, highway=* already corresponds to the official classification, but that’s not the case everywhere. Now, ref=* usually already shows what the road is classified as but sometimes roads can have no ref and in that case, noref=* doesn’t give any information. Sometimes, at junctions, roads can have small sections of no ref but sti...

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