Early SETI contributors - who's still around?

Message boards : Number crunching : Early SETI contributors - who's still around?
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

1 · 2 · 3 · 4 . . . 11 · Next

AuthorMessage
Preston
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 Jul 99
Posts: 5
Credit: 3,081,182
RAC: 0
United Kingdom
Message 957411 - Posted: 19 Dec 2009, 16:16:37 UTC

Like many people I originally participated in SETI Classic some years ago. Having gone through my career, various PCs etc with some employers allowing SETI and others not, I rejoined SETI a few years ago.

I was recently able to link my old Classic account (5 WU!) to my BOINC total and discovered I first participated on 27 July 1999. That's pretty early in SETI-terms.

How many of we early users are still around? Am I one of thousands from the first few months who is still contributing, or one of dozens?

Grateful for any feedback or advice -

Kind regards

Preston
Kind regards -
Preston

http://allprojectstats.com/s2202443x15a.png
ID: 957411 · Report as offensive
Profile Pooh Bear 27
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Jul 03
Posts: 3224
Credit: 4,603,826
RAC: 0
United States
Message 957455 - Posted: 19 Dec 2009, 22:45:37 UTC

In the Number Crunching form they have a 10 year club that has many of the users from 1999 in there.

I too am 1999, but I had 2 accounts, the 1999 had 0 Classic crunched while this one had several Classic crunched. Since I could only use one, I used the one that had credits.



My movie https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/502242
ID: 957455 · Report as offensive
Profile Chris

Send message
Joined: 8 May 00
Posts: 18
Credit: 14,597
RAC: 0
Germany
Message 957526 - Posted: 20 Dec 2009, 13:06:45 UTC
Last modified: 20 Dec 2009, 13:07:05 UTC

hello,

i started in 2000, may,08. Would be cool, if it has been in 1999.

Greetings to the 1999. :-)



Chris
ID: 957526 · Report as offensive
Odysseus
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 26 Jul 99
Posts: 1808
Credit: 6,701,347
RAC: 6
Canada
Message 959480 - Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 5:46:16 UTC - in response to Message 957411.  

Hey, we’re almost in the same “class”: just one day apart!

You can see how the rest of your cohort is doing on some of the stats sites, for which you’ll find links on your Account page. For example, here you are in the class of 1999-07-27 on BOINCstats. Of the 348 users who signed up that day, it appears that about a hundred are still contributing.
ID: 959480 · Report as offensive
FloydHung

Send message
Joined: 22 Jul 99
Posts: 7
Credit: 1,925,777
RAC: 1
Taiwan
Message 959684 - Posted: 31 Dec 2009, 3:50:05 UTC - in response to Message 959480.  

I am 1999 class too. Just a few days early than you. :D Good to know some old classmates still alive.^-^
ID: 959684 · Report as offensive
Profile William Michael Johnson

Send message
Joined: 26 Apr 00
Posts: 3
Credit: 6,619,218
RAC: 0
United States
Message 962382 - Posted: 10 Jan 2010, 0:43:16 UTC - in response to Message 957411.  

I just returned J980426 of Multax Systems Inc.
Still trying to learn the new functionality................
ID: 962382 · Report as offensive
Profile William Michael Johnson

Send message
Joined: 26 Apr 00
Posts: 3
Credit: 6,619,218
RAC: 0
United States
Message 962383 - Posted: 10 Jan 2010, 0:44:05 UTC - in response to Message 957411.  

Oh Yeah I am from March 1999...................J980426
ID: 962383 · Report as offensive
Profile Spectrum
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Jun 99
Posts: 468
Credit: 53,129,336
RAC: 0
Australia
Message 963753 - Posted: 16 Jan 2010, 9:20:18 UTC - in response to Message 957411.  

Hi Preston.

Yes there are a lot of us old timers around.

Stay happy and keep on crunching :)
ID: 963753 · Report as offensive
Mitra

Send message
Joined: 8 Jun 99
Posts: 4
Credit: 15,377,644
RAC: 75
Portugal
Message 963877 - Posted: 16 Jan 2010, 18:58:49 UTC
Last modified: 16 Jan 2010, 18:59:15 UTC

June 1999 here

God, has it really been THAT long? :)
ID: 963877 · Report as offensive
Profile Dirk Villarreal Wittich
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 25 Apr 00
Posts: 2098
Credit: 434,834
RAC: 0
Holy See (Vatican City)
Message 963984 - Posted: 17 Jan 2010, 1:02:35 UTC - in response to Message 962382.  

I just returned J980426 of Multax Systems Inc.
Still trying to learn the new functionality................


Hi William Michael Johnson and company!
My footprints go back to as early as April 25,2000.
Nice to meet you here, folks!

ID: 963984 · Report as offensive
Matthew S. McCleary
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Sep 99
Posts: 121
Credit: 2,288,242
RAC: 0
United States
Message 965764 - Posted: 24 Jan 2010, 23:10:09 UTC

Does September 1999 count as an early contributor?
ID: 965764 · Report as offensive
Tbone00

Send message
Joined: 4 Feb 01
Posts: 2
Credit: 1,126,588
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966286 - Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 3:39:27 UTC

I started in 2001. Not quite as early as you though. Was offline for awhile but back now.

Regards,
Tbone00
ID: 966286 · Report as offensive
Preston
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 Jul 99
Posts: 5
Credit: 3,081,182
RAC: 0
United Kingdom
Message 966630 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 12:17:34 UTC - in response to Message 966286.  

Hi everyone -

Thank you for all your interesting feedback and kind information. I'm surprised and delighted to find that there are so many of us early users still active.

Very special thanks to Odysseus for the info you provided on my signup & relative results. I'm not brilliant at interrogating databases but it's fun to see your own data following my signup 10 years ago.

I'll keep running SETI as long as it's around or until someone (?) hears back from a little green man & we call it quits.....?

Let's just all carry on crunching.....!

Kind regards

Preston
Kind regards -
Preston

http://allprojectstats.com/s2202443x15a.png
ID: 966630 · Report as offensive
Profile arkayn
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 May 99
Posts: 4438
Credit: 55,006,323
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966635 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 12:48:20 UTC

I am still here, all the way from May, 1999

ID: 966635 · Report as offensive
Profile hiamps
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 23 May 99
Posts: 4292
Credit: 72,971,319
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966637 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 12:59:29 UTC

Since May 99, time goes fast...
Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!
ID: 966637 · Report as offensive
Tornado

Send message
Joined: 30 May 99
Posts: 4
Credit: 2,961,012
RAC: 0
Canada
Message 966638 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 13:07:15 UTC
Last modified: 29 Jan 2010, 13:08:57 UTC

I joined May 30, 1999. I dont remember off hand, but i think I had 139 WU's done with SETI CLASSIC.

*Ok, just checked, I actually had 358 Classic WU's done"
ID: 966638 · Report as offensive
Profile SciManStev Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 20 Jun 99
Posts: 6651
Credit: 121,090,076
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966641 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 13:49:56 UTC

June of 1999 with 5108 classic units.
Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website
ID: 966641 · Report as offensive
Profile Michael Goetz
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 May 99
Posts: 56
Credit: 622,268
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966642 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 13:56:17 UTC

I think I'm tied for the earliest sign-up here.

Mine might be the first day that Seti@home opened to the public. I had been watching the project for a year or more while it was being developed, and I'm pretty sure I signed on as soon as it opened. If not the first day, then very soon afterwards.

I crunched some 2,290 WUs for SETI before switching to BOINC.

Mike




Want to find one of the largest known primes? Try PrimeGrid. Or help cure disease at WCG.

ID: 966642 · Report as offensive
Profile Paris
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 20 May 99
Posts: 110
Credit: 1,012,250
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966643 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 14:00:15 UTC

I'm still here, too. I'll keep plugging away. Things have changed a lot over the years. I still like the original graphic screensaver better than the one in use now.

Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs
ID: 966643 · Report as offensive
Profile ccappel
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 Jan 00
Posts: 362
Credit: 1,516,412
RAC: 0
United States
Message 966649 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 14:07:50 UTC - in response to Message 966643.  

I just joined the 10-year-club 2 days ago!

And yes, I agree, the old screensaver was much better, but no screensaver is best for crunchtimes. ;)
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

"I never get into an argument that I cannot win."
ID: 966649 · Report as offensive
1 · 2 · 3 · 4 . . . 11 · Next

Message boards : Number crunching : Early SETI contributors - who's still around?


 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.