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Meta and Reddit prove the social web is over
The Vergecast
The Fall of AOL
Eternal September is one of the most famous phrases in Internet lingo. It refers to when college students would sign onto Usenet for the first time. The community could no longer wrangle it back into line, so they started calling it Eternal September. "Every day was new chaos," says former AOL user and co-founder David Weinberger.
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