September that never ended

See also: September that Never Ended and September That Never Ended

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

See Eternal September. Coined by Dave Fischer in alt.folklore.computers: see the quotation.[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

the September that never ended

  1. (Internet slang, historical) Synonym of Eternal September. [from 1994]
    • 1994 January 25, Dave Fischer, “longest USENET thread ever”, in alt.folklore.computers‎[2] (Usenet):
      It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended.

References

  1. ^ Jason Koebler (30 September 2015), “It’s September, Forever”, in Vice‎[1], New York, N.Y.: Vice Media, archived from the original on 8 November 2020:
    ‘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.
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