Eternal September (also September that never ended)1 is the period beginning September 1993,2 a date from which it is believed by some that an endless influx of new users (newbies) has degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet.
The term eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, and was coined by Dave Fischer. The term is so well entrenched that one online project providing access to Usenet feeds calls itself Eternal September, and gives the date as a running tally of days since September of 1993 (e.g., May. 15, 2012 is "September 6832, 1993, the September that never ends.").3
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