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March 31, 2024
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Eternal September or the September that never ended[1] is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993[2] when Internet service providers[2] began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet gateway service in March 1994,[3] leading to a constant stream of new users. Hence, from the early Usenet point of view, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

History[edit]

A 1994 t-shirt commemorating Eternal September

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Usenet and the Internet were generally the domain of dedicated computer professionals and hobbyists; new users joined slowly, in small numbers, and observed and learned the social conventions of online interaction without having much of an impact on the experienced users. The only exception to this was September of every year, when large numbers of first-year college students gained access to the Internet and Usenet through their universities. These large groups of new users who had not yet learned online etiquette created a nuisance for the experienced users, who came to dread September every year. Once ISPs like AOL made Internet access widely available for home users, a continuous influx of new users began, making it feel like it was always “September” to the more experienced users.[4]

The full phrase appears to have evolved over a series of months on two separate alt.folklore newsgroups where a number of threads exist lamenting what they saw as an increase in low-quality posts across various newsgroups. Several members of the newsgroups referenced aspects of the “September” issue, typically in a joking manner.

In a thread on January 8, 1994, Joel Furr cross-posted asking “Is it just me, or has Delphi unleashed a staggering amount of weirdos on the net?”, which garnered a reply from Karl Reinsch “Of course it’s perpetually September for Delphi users, isn’t it?”[5] The day before, Furr had also posted the same message to alt.folklore.urban, where David Fischer responded with a joke call-to-action where he referred to the increasing numbers of Delphi users as the “Never-Ending-September”.[6] Fischer also replied to a different thread on January 25, 1994, in alt.folklore.computers saying, “It’s moot now. September 1993 will go down in net history as the September that never ended.”[7][8] This quote has been suggested to have been the first reference.[9]

Possibly the first use of the “Eternal September” phrase was a newsgroup post by John William Chambless in February 1994. He posted a rant including some excerpts of low-quality articles he found in one of his newsgroups that day, but titled the post “The Eternal September”.[10]

Legacy[edit]

A tongue-in-cheek program called sdate outputs the current date, formatted using the Eternal September calendar (September X, 1993, where X is an unbounded counter for days since that epoch).[11] This is not the identically named sdate, one of the sixty commands that comes with the First Edition of Unix, that is used to set the system clock.[12] Named with similar humour is one of the free public Usenet servers, Eternal-September.org.[13]

See also[edit]

July effect
Tragedy of the commons

References[edit]

^ Eric Raymond. “September that never ended”. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7). Archived from the original on September 14, 2008.

^ a b Grossman, Wendy M. (1997). “The Year September Never Ended”. Net.wars. New York University Press. pp. 4–17, 31–41. ISBN 978-0-8147-3103-1. OCLC 37451759. Archived from the original on June 26, 2006.

^ Grossman, Wendy M. (1997). “The Making of an Underclass: AOL”. Net.wars. New York University Press. pp. 31–41. ISBN 978-0-8147-3103-1. OCLC 37451759. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011.

^ Koebler, Jason (September 30, 2015). “It’s September, Forever”.

^ “Run! It’s the Delphioids!”. Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers. January 8, 1994. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

^ “Run! It’s the Delphioids!”. Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban. January 12, 1994. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

^ “longest USENET thread ever”. Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers. January 25, 1994. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

^ Issacson, Walter (2014). The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Simon & Schuster. p. 401. ISBN 978-1476708690.

^ Koebler, Jason (September 30, 2015). “It’s September, Forever”. Vice. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017.

^ “The Eternal September”. Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers. February 8, 1994. Retrieved January 10, 2022.

^ “Never Ending September Date – df7cb.de”. df7cb.de. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009.

^ “sdate(1) – Unix First Edition Manual Page”. cat-v.org. Archived from the original on May 30, 2014.

^ “www.eternal-september.org”. www.eternal-september.org.

External links[edit]

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TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded at MeatballWiki
sdate, a Unix program that outputs the date of Never Ending September

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