Eternal September

eternal September English Alternative forms en eternal September 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. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Eternal September.wav US Proper noun ~ Eternal September en Internet slang historical A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet. from 1994 en Endless September never-ending September September that never ended en 1994-02-09 John William Chambless The Eternal September alt.flame https://groups.google.com/g/alt.flame/c/HUbG4uvU4T4/m/b9QR6DWeXAAJ en 1994-04-17 Ziegler HERO: Star Wars in 1995 rec.arts.comics.misc https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.comics.misc/c/TgG-nefwuTM/m/tUa5bqmuwTYJ 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. 16 November 2007 Charles Arthur A filter for stupidity? https://web.archive.org/web/20140109164028/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/nov/16/stupid.filter Certainly the arrival of Eternal September also brought spam, both on Usenet and in email, because the spammers realised that there were a growing number of people who were stupid enough to believe their promises of pharmaceutical or financial wonders. en https://www.vice.com/en/article/nze8nb/its-september-forever Vice "September 1993 will go down in net history as the September that never ended," Dave Fischer wrote on the world's most popular social network at the time. That post spawned the idea of the "Eternal September," a phenomenon that happens when an internet community is forced to deal with a neverending influx of new people. It's September, Forever 2015-09-30 Jason Koebler https://web.archive.org/web/20240804052614/https://www.vice.com/en/article/nze8nb/its-september-forever 4 August 2024 20 October 2025 Benjamin Hart w:Cory Doctorow The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck https://web.archive.org/web/20251207200554/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-amazon-slop-internet.html I like the thing that we did where we made it much easier for everyday people to use it, and lots of people got to join the party. I’m really glad about that. I’m not one of these Eternal September people, angry that normal people use the internet now. Noun ? Eternal September en Internet slang en 4 August 2013 w:Katherine Rosman Some Twitter Users Push Back on Ads https://archive.ph/LLh6A https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/SB10001424127887324328904578623811676679672 8 December 2025 "Twitter can feel cheesy sometimes, so promotional and self-aggrandizing," says John Manoogian III, a tech entrepreneur in San Francisco who joined Twitter in 2006, its inaugural year. "It's experiencing Eternal September," he says, using the Internet slang for when something becomes overcome by the masses. He says that he and other purists are finding refuge in Weird Twitter. 8 August 2019 w:Anna Wiener The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News https://web.archive.org/web/20190808100003/https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news For decades, the phrase “Eternal September” has been used to describe the tipping point for a message board or online community—the inclusion, or invasion, of new users who dramatically change the existing subculture. The creation of Startup News was a response to Reddit’s Eternal September; The tech industry as a whole is having its own Eternal September. en 1 September 2022 A.T. Murray Desperately seeking Sebald before Eternal September of Mentifex alt.folklore.computers https://web.archive.org/web/20221207001625/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/ffWugu-HwQw 1 en Historical events Usenet