Meaning of eternal September | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.
   Internet, historical
2. Alternative letter-case form of Eternal September.
   alt-of

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“"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.”

“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.”

“"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.”

“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.”

“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.””

“So, anyway, I think the USENET should not be a place for lay or young or regular people. It should be the place for the type of people who created it and populated it --- before eternal September, say, lol.”

“Ms. [Jay] Graber referred to the culture clash as the “eternal September” problem, an allusion to how universities turn over their student population every year and a new class of students would log onto Usenet, an early social network, resulting in drastic changes to the culture.”

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