







The September that never ended

It's September, Forever
The 'Eternal September' was a 1993 backlash against unwanted internet users. It never ended.
Eternal September
Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.[1][2] Before this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.
Eternal September | Know Your Meme
Eternal September is a slang term that refers to the time period of the Internet since September 1993, when Usenet saw its heaviest influx of newbies into
Two Takes on the Eternal September
September, and with it the start of classes at most educational institutions in the United States, is almost upon us. In honor of this, I’d like to look back this week on the September that started twenty-eight years ago in 1993 and is still continuing: Usenet’s Eternal September. Twenty-eight years in, I still don’t think we understand exactly what the implications of this change were, nor have we decided what direction Internet communities should turn in response. I don’t have all the answers either, but I’d like to suggest two useful ways of thinking about it.

Thoughts on the 10000th of September | viznut
Today, the 16th day of January 2021, is the ten-thousandth day of September 1993.
A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness
Part 3 of Mastodon, two years later

Weekly Scroll: Eternal September
Plus: A little TPOT and a very good Christmas song

obsidian-full-calendar-remastered/plugin-full-calendar
Keep events and manage your calendar alongside all your other notes in your Obsidian Vault.

[010] Theseotomy - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Half the year's gone and still no sign of the Great Meme Reset of 2026.
The Daily Planet #123: Deep Time Impermanence - The Daily Planet
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community spent nine years turning an idea into a shipping standard.


"Bluesky Elder" (by Bee 🐝) — Semble

How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth

A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness

Weekly Scroll: Eternal September

Remember Remember Eternal September
Was their any substantial backlash to the internet when it first started becoming popular? I can imagine that going from a comparatively disconnected world to one where instantaneous global connection 24/7 were commonplace was a rather massive (and not always positive) shift in many ways.