On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:00:45PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
On 07/20/2017 03:16 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:Similarly, it is currently Thu Sep 8724 1993 (Eternal September calendar, available as sdate).Way back on September 4180, 1993, AOL ended Usenet access, the cause of the Eternal September. I'm not sure if it's best to call the next day October 1, 1993 or February 10, 2005, but either way September was finally over.Seems like a bug in the sdate package :-P
I was thinking this myself but found a post by someone saying that, in essense, the damage had been done. Usenet is not, and will never be, the same as it was in August 1993. Similarly, the internet as a whole has changed fundamentally.
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