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[-] nandi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Eternal September happened before most of the people on here were born

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 32 points 1 month ago

I think you underestimate the number of us old farts still lingering around. One of the great things about the Fediverse is that it gives us the old Web 1.0 vibes which we appreciate because we remember the early Net when all this was fields and you could buy an ice cream for a penny and still have change to catch the matinee down at the pictures and... Where are my bloody slippers?

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...the eternal september started before NCSA mosaic was released; i don't think any website can really capture the feel of the original internet unless it's structured like a text-based terminal...

(tildes does remind me a bit of usenet culture)

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

I'd been a netizen (what an incredibly dated word) for 5 years at that point.

At least I still have my original hips!

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, but it's eternal, so here we still are.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago
[-] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

The problem with attempting to run a serious social media instance is that social media needs new content all the time or nobody will really ever check it... however, there is often not nearly enough good, serious, content to support it long term.

So you get progressively worse memes.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Once upon a time, there existed a news protocol that would tell you about new things appearing, instead of waiting for you to check.

Then we got spammers.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Once upon a time, there existed a news protocol that would tell you about new things appearing, instead of waiting for you to check.

Town criers? Those Russian bot farms really do spoil everything.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Then the Fire Nation attacked.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Are you talking about mander.xyz?

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

No, I found this one on mastodon. Whoever posted it originally really was an admin of a university's own instance.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

They count as serious scientific memes

[-] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: The time since October 30th, 2022 is also referred to as "Eternal November". That's because November, 2022, when tons of completely clueless and often obnoxious newbies came flooding from Twitter onto Mastodon in expectation of an all-out Twitter-before-Musk clone and not knowing anything about the Fediverse, has seemingly never ended.

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