Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eternal september

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English

Syllables: eter-nal septem-ber
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.

name

Alternative letter-case form of Eternal September.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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'"

Etymology

Before the Internet became mainstream in the mid-1990s, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities, meaning that September (the start of the academic year) represented the largest annual influx of new users. Around 1993, commercial ISPs began offering Usenet access to their userbases, leading to a large amount of new posters with little idea of netiquette joining year-round. From the perspective of experienced Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

Inflected Forms

the Eternal September (canonical)

Synonyms

Endless September never-ending September September that never ended

Questions

What does eternal september mean?: A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.
Where does eternal september come from?: Before the Internet became mainstream in the mid-1990s, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities, meaning that September (the start of the academic year) represented the largest annual influx of new users. Around 1993, commercial ISPs began offering Usenet access to their userbases, leading to a large amount of new posters with little idea of netiquette joining year-round. From the perspective of experienced Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

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