Eternal September
(Internet slang, historical) A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.
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(Internet slang, historical) A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.
"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 w…
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