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 September
   The time when college students return to school and start to post
   stupid questions, repost MAKE MONEY FAST, break rules of
   netiquette, and just generally make life on Usenet more difficult
   than at other times of the year.  Unfortunately, it has been
   September since 1993.  With the growing sensationalism surrounding
   the "Information-Superhighway" in the United States, the current
   September is likely to last into the next century.

   Regarding the origin of this term, David DeLaney
   (dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

    > The first recorded outbreak of this was Warren Burstein saying
    > "It's *always* September, *somewhere* on the net" in response
    > to a particularly Clueless outburst from Delphi.com on
    > alt.folklore.urban, in fall 1993.
    >
    > Dave Fischer extended this, some time after that, to "1993 was
    > The Year September Never Ended".

There's a chapter on it in the book referenced in the meta-FAQ:

http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/netwars/textonly/contents/contents.html