Inspired by the last few months on fedi, three provocations about (mis)remembering Eternal September:

1️⃣ AOL's gateway didn't open in Sept 1993 (it was Feb 1994)
2️⃣ AOL was not the only service to frustrate USENET (people grumbled about FidoNet, CompuServe, etc)
3️⃣ USENET of 1994 was hardly a utopia (the hostility to AOL users far outweighed the disruption they caused)

This is just a kernel of an idea. Happy to hear your thoughts!

🔗 Read on in the latest issue of Flow:
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/04/eternal-september/