Meaning of Neverending September | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Well certainly the net's existence predates 1993[1], even business presence on the net. I'm talking about the general public. The unwashed masses. The constant daily tsunami of newbies that put the September bubble to shame, which began The Neverending September, well over 2000 days long and still counting. […] (Perhaps the Jargon File should also mention the variant form, "The Neverending September", backformed from the Michael Ende book and Disney movie title, "The Neverending Story".)”

“Not your fault, mind you. You might just not have been taking part in newsgroups with a more senior postership and had no good examples from senior role models. Me, I've been on Usenet for years. I predate the Deja.com archive's database. I even predate the AOL invasion, back in the days when you could set your calendar by the number of clueless newbies, before The Dawn of the Neverending September.”

“And besides, ever since the Usenet was opened to outside academia (1991 or so), and especially since the Neverending September, anonymous kooks have tried hurling libel at people, from accusations of prejudice, to accusations of pedophila, to no avail.”

“>[Is everyone on this Board....] Borders College Students? Almost. The Neverending September continues to bite; indeed the 3,000th day approaches next month... ;-)”

“: For reasons I don't understand, comp.lang.c++.moderated is having : a huge wave of homework requests right now. It's like September : all over again. Well, it's the Neverending September, that didn't go away like they used to. And now we're stuck with it.”

“For Internet familiarity among universities, either fall of '92 or '93, both of which have been refered to as the beginning of the neverending September.”

“Generally speaking, when people say 'troll' nowadays they mean flame baiting. Trolls in the traditional sense are pretty much extinct on the net, the neverending September pretty much killed off that endeavor.”

“An early popular newsreader (early in the sense of early modern - for Microsoft PCs) had a flaw where it regularly lost references headers (which - for those who don't know - are how threading always worked perfectly in the days before the neverending September).”

“well, sorry - but the 'big masses' washing in through this google-usenet-interface makes me think that the neverending September is coming back.”

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