"Eternity" was the name of a BBS program active from 1994-1996. BBS, if you don't know because you're not a hacker or coder active during the 1990s, was a kind of precursor to the web discussion groups we have today. Someone would moderate a group using his (maybe her) computer -- which could have been and often was something like an Amiga or Commodore 64 type ancient computing device with a modem, over which others could dial in to download updates to and participate in the discussion, or share some limited packs of information. Modems were so slow back then, it was mostly text.
BBS's for some harken to a great time before the world wide web became complicated, commercialized, what have you. Someone has even created a five and a half hour documentary about the phenomenon in 2005 (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/)-- it's pretty good too, according to Film Threat and Wired magazine.
We are in the age of ever more articulated subcultures!
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