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

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Eternal September

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Eternal September

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Internet historical slang

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

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インターネットスラングとして使われる歴史用語。1993年頃から始まった、Usenetに大量の新規ユーザーが参加し始めた時期を指す表現。

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Many veteran Usenet users point to Eternal September, the prolonged period beginning around 1993 when huge numbers of newcomers flooded the network, as the moment online discourse changed forever.

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多くのベテランのUsenetユーザーは、1993年頃に始まり大量の新参者が流入した長期的な時期（永遠の9月とも呼ばれる）を、オンライン上の議論が永遠に変わった瞬間として挙げている。

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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 when an internet community is forced to deal with a neverending influx of new people.

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