It’s actually refering to “Eternal September” in 1993 (not 1994) when AOL gave its users access to Usenet, flooding these previously academic/tech communities with newbies who didn’t know the etiquette - essentially marking when internet culture began to be permanently diluted by mainstream users.
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The internet has been ruined since September 1994, don’t worry about it
What specifically happened then, I’ll bite?
It’s actually refering to “Eternal September” in 1993 (not 1994) when AOL gave its users access to Usenet, flooding these previously academic/tech communities with newbies who didn’t know the etiquette - essentially marking when internet culture began to be permanently diluted by mainstream users.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
It was 1993, when AOL started offering Usenet access. It never got better from there