It's sad to see the mothership being scrapped, so let's share some memories here.

Please tell how and when you first found out about Seti@Home.

I heard about Seti for the first time back in December 2000, where my group and I had a 4.th semester project in distributed computer science about clustering technology at the Business Academy, with Beowolf's and others, and a friend of mine told me about the largest cluster in the world!

For my exam I looked up on the 'net what Seti was about, and I got hooked on the idea, and I also used it in my examination. But I couldn't join before last year, because I only had my old 486 with not 'net access. So when I got my new computer in the early summer 2004 with 'net access, I joined imidiately. I only crunched 71 Classic WU's, because the teamleader of the team, I first joined, told me about BOINC, so I switched right after it became public.

And as so many others here I crunched Classic WU's during the great outages in the beginning. But as soon BOINC came on track, credits started to flow and WU's were available regularly, I uninstalled the Classic client. And I have BOINC'ed ever since, also joining other projects!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Well, I read about it in Maximum PC magazine. I think it was the Dec 2003 issue? They had a short little article about the project and as soon as I read it I went home, got to the now SETI Classic homepage they provided me with in the magazine and joined immediately. After they started talking about changing over to the BOINC platform I wasn't too thrilled about the idea so I quit.

But, I came back to the project recently to give it another go and now I'm happily BOINC'in on. So sad to see Classic go though as you said Fuzzy. Although we are on to greener pastures.

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Ni newly returned, not newly knighted! Ni

I heard about SETI@Home for the first time in June 1999. On CompuServe, in the Mensa Forum. It seemed an interesting project to get involved in, and appropriate for our members. 8-)

Some of us have moved on to BOINC, most of us still exclusively on SETI@Home. I'm hoping to see more of our members on this side of the project now.

MJ

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I go for it in September 1999

because a Friend of mine was telling me somethink about

SETI

The Search for Extrateresstrial Intelligence

outer Space

i think i have to go on with this, and so i am here

btw

i am a great Fan of Carl Sagan

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

and

http://www.fas.org/sagan.htm

Most Visible Member of the Scientific Community of the Planet Earth

so here i am

and that over six years, , i had good Days and not so good Days, but

i am a Seti Searcher... and proud of this

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

I thiiink I first heard about Seti@, from a documentary or some astronomy educationalshow of some sort.
I immediately found a way on-line (cause I didn't have a computer) I looked into it and swore as soon as I had a good computer I'd get it.

Aaaaand so many years later, I finally had a good "fast" one and that was the first thing I did, was install it.


I'm 41 and that actually made me very happy right after marriage and kids.

Almost sad really.

Alex:)>

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be our fwend at..http://www.myspace.com/bandescandar

I was watching the Science Channel the evening of my birthday and they had the program on about Alien Contact and how the Univ of Berkley was providing space for this thing called SETI. So I google searched and found it and said HMMMMMMM...so I signed up. Spent the rest of the night watching the screen-saver and calling my wife to the computer to look at the "contact" and maybe this was "something" look, look! She still humors me about how many computers I have running the program. Plan on adding another the first of the year. I learned alot about computers, network and all from the great people on the boards at Classic. It is kind of sad, but things change and you must change with them or be left behind. Hopefully, the issues with BOINC will sort themselves out and become better as times goes on. Maybe in five years we'll be saying, "I'm not switching to that new crap program, you don't get credit for work performed, you just get credit for one work unit! That's not right!"
Dan Myers

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MY sons friend came over and asked why since I had several computers I wasn't doing naything constructive with them. I asked what he ahd in mind and he suggested.......SETI!!! I joined that same day and have not looked back since. I now have 22 machines here at home all running something. Some need to be gotten rid of, but they are happily crunching D2OL, so it may be after the first of the year before they go out the door. I even a couple of machines that are not running at all, they are just too slow for me, 450mhz machines.
It will be six years for me in 2 days! I have crunched Classic, Seti Beta Boinc and now regular Seti Boinc. I have also crunched some for Einstein but that is not a priority to me like Seti is.
According to this page, http://www.teamocuk.com/spart.php?s=270e083fdfdab0c11cceada1ed625087&p=SAH&u=2575 I need 241,116 more cobblestones for my next certificate!

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I've known about SETI for years and years, I can't remember when I first heard about it, probably in some Sci-Fi magazine.

I first heard about SETI@home on the Screensavers show on ZDTV (maybe it had changed to TechTV by then) in the spring of 1999. Somebody (David Andersen, probably) came on the show and explained the project and asked for volunteers. I joined soon after that.

I switched to BOINC a few months ago and I really don't miss Classic. For me it has always been about helping with the science and I leave it up to the team at Berkeley to decide what is the best way for me to help. I like that I can help more than SETI especially since they have more processing power than they can use these days.

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David Stites
Pullman, WA USA

I heard about Seti for the first time back in December 2000, where my group and I had a 4.th semester project in distributed computer science about clustering technology at the Business Academy, with Beowolf's and others, and a friend of mine told me about the largest cluster in the world!

I HAD NO IDEA you were still just a babe in arms! That means that when I graduated High School, you were NOT EVEN BORN!!!! THANKS, and my birthday is coming up soon too! I was a 2 day early Christmas present for my parents.

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I heard about SETI in 2001. Actually saw it on TV, the show JAG. One of the guys there was a geek and he decided to put it on head JAG's machine. Loved the graphics (even though it was just a partal shot). Needless to say, being a SCI-FI buff, I went out to the web and downloaded it. I switched over to BOINC about a year ago and it really wasn't that painful. Now I'm crunching for 4 projects on 2 machines.

Wendy

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Wendy



Click Here for BOINC FAQ Service

I saw it running on my best friends computer and asked, "What's that?" The rest is history. :)

In May of 1999, I was scanning through my morning newspaper, having my coffee. While scanning, the words Star Trek popped out at me. I read the article and learned that SETI was looking for, get this, 100,000 computer users to do DC and search for ET.

I was hooked and as soon as I got home, I dialed up the internet, started Netscape, went to the URL in the news article, and the rest is history. I still have that article, cut from the paper, somewhere here. (-:< >:-)

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

I first saw the Seti@Home screensaver on Friday, May 28 1999 when I went to my ISP to pay my bill. My friend Seth who worked there had it running on one of the workstations. I immediately went home and installed it on my computer, a 300MHz Pentium II. I had only one machine at that time. Since then, my network has grown to 20 machines. I started switching my machines to the BOINC platform on June 24, 2005 when it was announced that Seti Classic would soon be closing. I had over 64,000 workunits done, and I figured that I'd never have time to reach my goal of 100,000 before Classic closed, so I switched over the rest of my machines to BOINC. So, I bid a very fond farewell to Seti Classic. Here's hoping that BOINC will enjoy the same success long into the future. Happy crunching....

Regards, Daniel.

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i had heard about SETI long before i knew there was such a thing as SETI@home...i found SETI@home at download.com...it sounded interesting...so i downloaded the program and started crunching FEBRUARY 2004...then in JULY 2004 i saw a mention of the new SETI/BOINC...i switched over to that the just as fast as i could get the download...it's been alot of fun...i got into this for the cool screensaver...but in time i discovered there's a whole lot more to SETI than that...it's the chance to participate in a project that involves people all over the world that means the most to me now.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

The Discovery Channel!!!

.o0(or was it when I was abducted?)

The Art Bell Show, around Jan. or Feb. of 1999, if I remember correctly. Art started pitching it. I worked nights then, and sometimes listened to the show for laughs (with rare exceptions, it was a bunch of crazy crap). I missed opening day, but managed to get signed up on May 27th, 1999 (or was it the 28th, I get both dates from Berkeley... UTC vs PST/PDT, perhaps). I managed to get 20-something work units crunched on my old P.O.S. computer I had back then with the screensaver. In early Jan. of 2000, having just lost my email address, and realizing that I didn't have my password written down, I started this current account. In March 2000, I discovered the team "The Knights Who Say Ni!", and learned the finer points of S@H crunching, including the beloved CLI (and eventually, SetiQueue). Been with the team ever since, and saw it rise, and for the most part stay, up into the top-10 all-teams list. A better bunch of guys would be hard to find.

I was part of the beta test of what became 'classic' V3.0, and when Seti/BOINC needed beta testers, I joined that effort in late 2003. While I believe that BOINC provides a much better platform (for reasons too many to go into here) for S@H, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Classic. Classic introduced me to the world of distributed computing. While I have since participated in a lot of projects, I have always kept at least one machine crunching S@H.

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https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

#Texit

Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.

From this news Item on the BBC, Screening for life in the machine.

They had a follow up later in August 1999 Alien hunter breaks record

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Back in 1999 I came across SETI@home. I don't remember how or why I ended up on that web page, but SETI has always had my interest. It was about a month before the official launch, but in the end I couldn't wait any longer, so I actually joined a couple of days before the official launch.

Come to think of it, I might just have been surfing for info on SETI, and must have come across seti@home at a search engine.. Anyway, the thought of actually being searching for ETI myself, being part of that, was indeed exiting to me.

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May 17, 1999

A friend told me about it.

First WU took about 100 hours with Scrnsvr running. Learned quick...Don't use Scrnsvr. Next one took about 70 hours. Did 2272 WU with that 1st account.

Did 100 this year with new account just to have a Classic showing on my account page. They took about 2 hours each.

Started SETI II/BOINC in July 2004 after seeing a notice about it on the Classic Home Page. It pays to do some reading. It has run fine since the beginning.

-Mr. anon

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I started out in 1998 with distributed.net's rc5-64 after a co-worker told me about it.
Around the end of 2000 we got bored with their client and started looking for other projects.
We came across SETI@Home and started running that as secondary project under my first account.
Been on and off the project ever since under different accounts.
Started using BOINC in august 2004 when both CPDN and SETI were using it, never looked back.

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