Happy 15th Anniversary SETI@home

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Sun May 18, 2014 5:36 pm

Hi all,

I can recall being in Florida, USA in late May 1999, attending a computer in Melbourne (not far from Cape Canaveral) and seeing a demonstration of the original SETI@home application.....running on a Windows PC...and this is long before BOINC

I was enthralled at seeing the screensaver crunching real-world data, and promised myself I'd download the application and start crunching.

It's now 15 years later and SETI is 15 years old...

see here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_th ... p?id=74782

regards
Tim

Zydor · Post by **Zydor** » Tue May 20, 2014 12:37 am

I was in a Hotel in Johannesburg, on a Client visit, when that started . I remember thinking .... "oh boy here we go - nightmare" ......

I couldn't have been more wrong rofl.

But ...... 15 years ..... terrifying, seems like yesterday.

I need to put up the 'ol Grim Reaper Defences rofl :druid:

Francis McDermott · Post by **Francis McDermott** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:24 pm

Wow - 15 years!

I can never remember when I started such things, but with the power of email archives I see that I got my SETI password in May 2001.

I also see that the links to my certificates for completing 250 and 500 work units no longer exist