<s>
Eternal	B-Application
September	I-Application
or	O
the	B-Application
September	I-Application
that	I-Application
never	I-Application
ended	I-Application
is	O
Usenet	B-Application
slang	O
for	O
a	O
period	O
beginning	O
around	O
1993	O
when	O
Internet	O
service	O
providers	O
began	O
offering	O
Usenet	B-Application
access	O
to	O
many	O
new	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AOL	O
followed	O
with	O
their	O
Usenet	B-Application
gateway	O
service	O
in	O
March	O
1994	O
,	O
leading	O
to	O
a	O
constant	O
stream	O
of	O
new	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hence	O
,	O
from	O
the	O
early	O
Usenet	B-Application
point	O
of	O
view	O
,	O
the	O
influx	O
of	O
new	O
users	O
in	O
September	O
1993	O
never	O
ended	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
During	O
the	O
1980s	O
and	O
early	O
1990s	O
,	O
Usenet	B-Application
and	O
the	O
Internet	O
were	O
generally	O
the	O
domain	O
of	O
dedicated	O
computer	O
professionals	O
and	O
hobbyists	O
;	O
new	O
users	O
joined	O
slowly	O
,	O
in	O
small	O
numbers	O
,	O
and	O
observed	O
and	O
learned	O
the	O
social	O
conventions	O
of	O
online	O
interaction	O
without	O
having	O
much	O
of	O
an	O
impact	O
on	O
the	O
experienced	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
only	O
exception	O
to	O
this	O
was	O
September	O
of	O
every	O
year	O
,	O
when	O
large	O
numbers	O
of	O
first-year	O
college	O
students	O
gained	O
access	O
to	O
the	O
Internet	O
and	O
Usenet	B-Application
through	O
their	O
universities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Possibly	O
the	O
first	O
use	O
of	O
the	O
"	O
Eternal	B-Application
September	I-Application
"	O
phrase	O
was	O
a	O
newsgroup	O
post	O
by	O
John	O
William	O
Chambless	O
in	O
February	O
1994	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
posted	O
a	O
rant	O
including	O
some	O
excerpts	O
of	O
low-quality	O
articles	O
he	O
found	O
in	O
one	O
of	O
his	O
newsgroups	O
that	O
day	O
,	O
but	O
titled	O
the	O
post	O
"	O
The	O
Eternal	B-Application
September	I-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
tongue-in-cheek	O
program	O
called	O
sdate	B-Application
outputs	O
the	O
current	O
date	O
,	O
formatted	O
using	O
the	O
Eternal	B-Application
September	I-Application
calendar	O
(	O
September	O
X	O
,	O
1993	O
,	O
where	O
X	O
is	O
an	O
unbounded	O
counter	O
for	O
days	O
since	O
that	O
epoch	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
not	O
the	O
identically	O
named	O
sdate	B-Application
,	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
sixty	O
commands	B-Application
that	O
comes	O
with	O
the	O
First	O
Edition	O
of	O
Unix	B-Application
,	O
that	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
set	O
the	O
system	B-Operating_System
clock	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Named	O
with	O
similar	O
humour	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
free	O
public	O
Usenet	B-Application
server	O
Eternal-September.org	O
.	O
</s>
