We’re now 33 years into Eternal September. You have to be older than about 52 to know what I’m talking about. But if you started college before the fall of 1993, especially if you were studying computer science, you know all about the September that never ended. And no, it’s not some kind of followup to that Beach Boys’ compilation album called Endless Summer. It doesn’t have anything to do with that Green Day song either. Instead, it’s a phase of the life of the Internet.
The phrase “the September that never ended” originated in a Usenet post on alt.folklore.computers by Dave Fischer, dated January 26, 1994.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
