Eternal September
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Les sommets de l’Olympe
Je viens de tomber sur une anecdote qui décrit le déclin de l’internet depuis 1993. Les utilisateurs anciens constatent (et se plaignent) de la qualité en baisse constante des échanges qu’on peut avoir sur le net. D’après eux la qualité serait diluée par l’afflux des masses incultes qui courent après des vendeurs de bling bling au lieu de respecter les utilisateurs et admins expérimentés .
Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning in September 1993, the month that Internet service provider America Online began offering Usenet access to its many users, overwhelming the existing culture for online forums.
Before then, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities. Every September, a large number of incoming freshmen would acquire access to Usenet for the first time, taking time to become accustomed to Usenet’s standards of conduct and “netiquette”. After a month or so, these new users would either learn to comply with the networks’ social norms or tire of using the service.
Whereas the regular September freshman influx would quickly settle down, the influx of new users from AOL did not end, and Usenet’s existing culture did not have the capacity to integrate the sheer number of new users following September 1993. Since then, the popularity of the Internet has brought on a constant stream of new users and thus, from the point of view of the pre-1993 Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.
The term may have first been used by Dave Fischer in a January 26, 1994, post to alt.folklore.computers: “It’s moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended.”
En 2001 l’achat de Dejanews par Google marque la fin définitive des newsgroups en tant que moyen de communication de la majorité des internautes et le début de la monopolisation des flux de communication par les géants du net. Depuis Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple et Microsoft ont aquis la position de dieux incontestés sur l’Olympe moderne et s’amusent à semer la confusion chez utilisateurs.
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