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{{quote|''Summer has come and passed <br />
{{quote|''Summer has come and passed <br />
The innocent can never last <br />
''The innocent can never last <br />
Wake me up when September ends''|'''[[Green Day]]''', ''Wake Me Up When September Ends''<ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|The song does not actually address the Eternal September itself; It was about Billie Joe Armstrong's father, who died in September when the guitarist was still ten years old.]]</ref>}}
''Wake me up when September ends''|'''[[Green Day]]''', ''Wake Me Up When September Ends''<ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|The song does not actually address the Eternal September itself; It was about Billie Joe Armstrong's father, who died in September when the guitarist was still ten years old.]]</ref>}}


Back in the old days, few people could access [[The Internet]], even if they'd somehow heard of it and wanted to access it in the first place. One of the few groups that ''could'' was college students: universities were among the very first Internet adopters, and college-affiliated people, especially students, were one of the main demographic groups on the Internet through the first half of [[The Nineties]].
Back in the old days, few people could access [[The Internet]], even if they'd somehow heard of it and wanted to access it in the first place. One of the few groups that ''could'' was college students: universities were among the very first Internet adopters, and college-affiliated people, especially students, were one of the main demographic groups on the Internet through the first half of [[The Nineties]].