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by HalcyonMuse 6145 days ago
I'm surprised you didn't mention September 1993, the neverending September.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

This isn't a big date technologically speaking, but as far as the social history of the internet goes, it was huge. I suspect it's one of the big reasons AOL was so demonized. (There are obviously many others.)