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eternal September en · PROPN

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1. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Eternal September.
   alt of 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' 2010 December 30, Whiskers, “META+ The Root Cause of Usenet's Decline”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025:
   • Already in September 1993, the commercialization of the Internet on the consumer side unleashed what was known in early Usenet groups as “eternal September.” 2017 August 4, Carly Goodman, “Commercialization brought the Internet to the masses. It also gave us spam.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2019:
   • Those are not known to be involved in causing any large desaster,^([sic]) like Usenet's eternal September. 1999 September 20, Kai Henningsen, “Robert Heinlein and New Religion”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 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. 2023 December 3, Julieta Shem, “USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix”, in comp.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025:
   • 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. 2024 November 17, Mike Isaac, “How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2024:

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