[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Oh how I miss 1994 (when I got into this mess) when NSI required
> two nameservers answering for a domain before it would register one
> for you. Back when some flavor of Unix ran most systems so clueful
> folks were generally at the helm and things, in general, looked
> grand. Then came along Windoze NT and HTTP 1.1... anyone could
> point and click their way to name-based hosting, etc.
Let's go back to sometime before the september that never ended. :-)
For anyone wanting to know, I pulled this from the jargon file:
The September That Never Ended
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.
