Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> writes: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:19:34PM -0500, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>>Matthew Hunter wrote: >>> >>>> I'm midly surprised that no one bothered to respond to the >>>> September That Never Ended part of my original message. Surely >>>> someone else here remembers that? >>>> >>>I don't know what the September That Never Ended refers to. >>> >> >> I believe that makes you a part of it. > I believe you are mistaken. After some research I tried to avoid out > of laziness, I find that although unfamiliar with the jargon, I'm > quite familiar with the concept, having witnessed it again and > again. I started using the internet in 1994 on a BBS run by a much > older friend of mine. I was well schooled in netiquette (and the > unix-like pro-line user shell) well before I started college in 1997, > and I thus never went in for activities like those of the typical > Septemberite. I will out of courtesy not elaborate on my AOL antipathy. As a claim about people's actions and attitudes, sounds like it doesn't refer to you. However, I know it mostly as a claim about the time when the public started getting on the Internet, which was -- September of 1994, actually. So in that sense it sounds like are a part of it. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>