Green Day may have sung "When September Ends" but which group of computer users claim that a certain September in the 1990s will never end and why?

bookaddict

The use of these expressions implies the belief that standards of behavior on Usenet have declined since 1993 due to an unending flow of new users. Every year new university students got access to Usenet and took a while to get use to the edicate of this program. Most students were learning this new edicate in September (back to school time). Within a month most people would have it down. In 1993 AOL began offering Usenet to everybody creating a steady strem of newby's who don't know the proper edicate. Thus, from the point of view of the pre-1993 Usenet user, the regular "September" newbie influx never ended. In fact Software programs exist which display the date in accordance with this reckoning — for instance, September 4086, 1993 for the date November 8, 2004. On January 25, 2005 (jokingly called September 4165, 1993), AOL officially discontinued newsgroup access through its service. September 1993 is thus, according to some, finally over. Others, however, feel that Google Groups, especially with its new user interface, has picked up the torch that AOL has dropped – and that Eternal September has yet to end. Information found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Oct 15 05, 6:23 PM

gmackematix

I missed this answer but you get a yay of course. Presumably "edicate" means etiquette. Nov 05 05, 11:54 PM

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