eternal September

eternal September or the eternal September

1. Alternative letter-case form of Eternal September.
   • 1999 September 20, Kai Henningsen, “Robert Heinlein and New Religion”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     Those are not known to be involved in causing any large desaster,^[sic] like Usenet's eternal September.

   • 2010 December 30, Whiskers, “META+ The Root Cause of Usenet's Decline”, in rec.arts.tv‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     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'

   • 2017 August 4, Carly Goodman, “Commercialization brought the Internet to the masses. It also gave us spam.”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 March 2019:

     Already in September 1993, the commercialization of the Internet on the consumer side unleashed what was known in early Usenet groups as “eternal September.”

   • 2023 December 3, Julieta Shem, “USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix”, in comp.misc‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 8 December 2025:

     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.

   • 2024 November 17, Mike Isaac, “How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth”, in The New York Times‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 November 2024:

     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.