September that never ended = S = SEX

server n.

A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the requestor/client runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `web servers', `name servers', `domain servers', `news servers', `finger servers', and the like.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.