How much do you actually know about eternal september?

I know that I'm part of the problem.

I was technically part of it, although as a kid I quickly grew bored of all that text.

>>1554346
I lived through it. Usenet and IRC used to be good. But that was a long, long time ago.

It's forever and about kids.

>>1556574
How does someone like you end up in a place like this? /qa/ seems like the last place you'd find true ancients.

>>1558347
As opposed to where?

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>>1554693

>>1558356
I dunno, somewhere less full of shitposting.

>>1558773
I was really hoping for more than that.

Anyway, you can ignore/filter the frogposters, pretty much no one else seems to be spamming the board at the moment.

>>1558784
Frog posters were always welcome. Please get out of /qa/.

>>1558963
You seem angry.

>>1554346
it's a near religious concept to me that i think applies to almost everything not just internet forums

>>1558347
There are older than me on 4chan but this is how it went for me. In the summer of 1990 I was 15 and got my first modem as a gift. It was a 1200 Baud Hayes model that made the noises you might have heard before. The only place to connect to with your modem was message board BBSs in your area, or services like Prodigy/Compuserve. Then the BBSs started getting chat functions and file transfer capabilities. Then they started getting networked on early mail server systems like FidoNet, WWIVnet, EarthLink, and WorldNet. About this time came the rise of MUDs/MUSHs. Online games were already on BBSs but now they were being networked with hundreds of players. People were chatting in those as well.

Then came the internet, and everything changed. I'm not talking about the world wide web, I'm talking about IRC, using telnet to get to BBSs, newsgroups, FTP transfers, and to a limited extent HTML. About this same time companies like AOL and Prodigy started marketing to the sheeple who thought computers were only for nerds. Eventually those AOL sheeple got hooked up to the internet and then came the first Eternal September.

I came here in 2005 and followed the same path as most others. I heard about the site from a runescape-like web based online game called Cybernations that got raided by /b/tards of the time.. I started on /b/ and progressing to smaller boards. This board is now the place I feel most comfy, if you excuse the overused meme buzzword term.

>>1560872
What were the original BBSs like. What did you talk about?

Also thanks for sharing, as a relative infant compared to your time spent on the net it's always interesting to hear people talk about the old days.

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>>1561327
A bit off-topic, but doesn't that bug you? I came here in 2012 so I'm forever a newfag. Do you ever feel like you lost an opportunity to participate in something like that? I guess exploring smaller chans and other boards can be quite rewarding though

Talking about the September, pic related is quite interesting in the similarities with 4chan, I feel like this would even be interesting in the larger context of human psychology

>>1561350
The way I see it no matter what era you're born into there's gonna be something that came just before that you missed out on. In 20 years or so we'll probably see people talking about how they wish they could have been around in our time.

And seeing as time machines don't exist the best altenative is reading archives and listening to the stories people have to tell.

>>1561327
The BBSs I got on were all devoted to a specific topics. Most were simple message boards that are very similar to the standard ones found on the WWW today. The topics ranged from ham radio enthusiasts, to warez traders trading Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein (or even porn jpgs), to music, drugs, etc. Some were only for online BBS door games like Legend of the Red Dragon or Tradewars2002. Some others were only for matchmaking like e-Harmony or Tindr is today. Some were even devoted to anime topics. As I remember it, there wasn't much for Americans to discuss in those pre-Pokeman days but movies like Akira and Vampire Hunter D.

There were about 200 BBSs in my phone area code so I was lucky. Others in more rural areas has much less to call without expensive, archaic long-distance charges. The number of total worldwide BBSs peaked about the time of the first Eternal September. Nowadays our modems are proprietary, often rented, and only connect to one particular carrier/ISP in a given area. People don't realize today what freedoms we have given up when we took the modems out of the PC and lost our ability to connect to anything we choose with them, not that there is really anything to use them that way for anymore.

>>1561463
Please elaborate.

>>1554346
That it was nothing compared to the debut of the iphone.

The final Eternal September will be when the third world hordes are not only granted easy internet access, but when translation software advances to the point where they can break the language barrier.
That will be the end. You will be begging to go back to the past waves of Eternal September, which will seem so benign in comparison to the e-apocalypse.

>>1565276
Where can I go

age

>>1565276
>when translation software advances to the point where they can break the language barrier.
So, never.

>>1565276
A lot of them won't need translation software. India and Pakistan people already sort of speak English, and Nigeria dey talk di pidgin.

>>1566677
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users
Wikipedia says 47.44% of Nigerians are already Internet users. India is only at 26.00%, but has more Internet users total than the US.

>>1566697
I remember when /pol/ tried to help ebola spread by going to Nigerian forums and spreading disinfo.
Good times.
I also remember this one apparent post from a Nigerian. He was depressed over how his people haven't accomplished anything, and that almost all the technology they're using was handed to them by whites.
Sad times.

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>>1566337
It will happen sooner or later.
Google's AI is hard at work.