"the period beginning September 1993.[2] The expression encapsulates the belief that an endless influx of new users (newbies) since that date has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet."

"Rent gets driven up, the crowds come, it becomes to crowded, and the hipsters have to move on. Just replace hipsters with alpha geeks and you get the same process." 2008/07/07

a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system.

flash games and community in one awesome package

geographic area represents estimated size of membership

"(...) the roles that are taken up in an online community that's based around a "thing" (...). You'd choose to wear that mask and then hop on stage and do the dance that so many have done before you."