From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Sat Aug 04 19:10:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Aug 2001 02:10:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 34411 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 02:10:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Aug 2001 02:10:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta01-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.41) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 02:10:23 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.25]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010805021021.GIBR15984.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:10:21 +0100 To: Subject: RE: CHAT: RE: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:09:29 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010804180237.O27716@digitalkingdom.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" Robin: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:56:50AM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > > And what is Eternal September? -- from the name alone, I'd guess a > > terrorist outfit operating out of Pyongyang.[*] > > It used to be that the internet got Noticeably Less Clueful in September > as all the freshmen got accounts. > > Eternal September was declared some time in 1994. Certainly when the WWW took off in 1993 or so the net population began to soar, but where there was once a wildnerness there is now a great city. Five years ago I despaired at how unrealized the potential of the web was -- how little of the information one wished for one could actually find -- but now it's steadily getting closer to what it should be. I speak as something of a technological muggle, mind you; I'm about as much of a net oldtimer as a 34 year-old can be, but tho at least a quondam Unicist, I never was very clueful. --And.