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the eternal september?
Its a reference to Usenet back in 1993, its essentially when an online community has to deal with a never ending influx of new users. So think of this as Reddit before it got big/mainstream.
I was using usenet a bit back then. I actually found myself debating stuff on usenet by going to Google groups and searching for my name. Have to say, I was expecting to be embarrassed to read it all again, but it wasn't too bad. What I wrote still makes sense to me now 30 years later. I didn't expect that.
Ah yeah so you've seen it all, that's awesome. I wasn't around when usenet was in its prime (on account of being roughly -2 years old).
It's a reference to a historical increase in internet and usenet usage, and a massive influx of users in many forums.