Eternal September

name

Etymology

Before the Internet became mainstream in the mid-1990s, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities, meaning that September (the start of the academic year) represented the largest annual influx of new users. Around 1993, commercial ISPs began offering Usenet access to their userbases, leading to a large amount of new posters with little idea of netiquette joining year-round. From the perspective of experienced Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

Definitions

1
A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.
- I've only been here since the start of the Eternal September, but I was on at the beginning of that whole mess with the Highs.
2
Alternative letter-case form of Eternal September.
- Those are not known to be involved in causing any large desaster,^([sic]) like Usenet's eternal September.
- AOL are commonly blamed for the beginning of the end of usenet^([sic]) - not by withdrawing from it, but by making it accessible to their users. That event marked the start of 'the eternal September'
- Already in September 1993, the commercialization of the Internet on the consumer side unleashed what was known in early Usenet groups as “eternal September.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA