All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of
the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless
newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of
themselves. This coincided with people starting college, getting
their first internet accounts, and plunging in without bothering
to learn what was acceptable. These relatively small drafts of
newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in
September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly
overwhelming the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to
those who nostalgically recall the period before hand, this
triggered an inexorable decline in the quality of discussions on
newsgroups. See also AOL!.
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server n.
A kind of daemon that performs a
service for the requester and which often runs on a computer
other than the one on which the server runs. A particularly
common term on the Internet, which is rife with `web servers',
`name servers', `domain servers', `news servers', `finger
servers', and the like.
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