Many years ago towards the beginning of my career proper in technology I first came across the phrase "the September that never ended." Asking a close grey bear

Many years ago towards the beginning of my career proper in technology I first came across the phrase "the September that never ended." Asking a close grey beard he chuckled, explained poetically about newsgroups and finished with the anecdote that when he first started his career he had come across a similar phrase, asked a similar question and thus the cycle was complete.