This is commonly referred to as the "Eternal September".

Fifteen years ago, someone coined the term, Eternal September.

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This bears some similarity to the 1990s Usenet concept of Eternal September.

Graham has stated he hopes to avoid the Eternal September that results in the general decline of intelligent discourse within a community.

Eternal September "

A reference to hackers and hacker groups that operated prior to Eternal September, also spelled "01d sk001".

The term eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, and was coined by Dave Fischer.

AOL gives its users access to USENET, precipitating Eternal September.

With AOL clients swarming Usenet newsgroups, the old, existing user base started to develop a strong distaste for both AOL and its clients, referring to the new state of affairs as Eternal September.

Several of his articles on the early rise of the Internet as a medium outside of academia (i.e. after the Eternal September when it became available to the masses) have been used as course materials by sociology courses in several universities, including Queen's University Belfast.

Eternal September (also September that never ended) began September 1993, a date which the existing members of Usenet believe that an endless influx of new users (newbies) from AOL degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet.