I'll start:

It was early May, 1999, when I heard an interview with Dan Wirthheimer on NPR's radio show, "Talk of the Nation". I was drawn to the dual concepts of distributed computing and searching for ETI, all while using the non-productive time between computing tasks.

I signed up as soon as I could for what is now called "Classic" SETI@home, and suffered through the growng pains of a project released to the public while still evolving. When the darn thing hung up, I quickly discovered the discussion boards, which were full of helpful advice when I needed it, and also became a place to chat with other participants even when I didn't need help and things were going well with my few crunching machines. The message boards became a kind of benefit to me and others for our service to the project.

Here we are, ten years later, and I'm still plugging along, but without any of my original machines. And it is still worthwhile.

I first heard about the Seti@Home back in January 2001 from a friend. I had worked on a project about clustering, and then my friend mentioned Seti@Home as the biggest cluster in the world. Well, I now know that Seti wasn't a pure cluster project, such as Beowolfs and other, but I mentioned it to my exam as an example of a distributed computer project that could relate to clustering, and the biggest of them all.

At that time all I had was an old 486 and no net connections, but in the summer 2004 I was able to buy a new computer and got an internet connection, and I downloaded the old Seti classic client. The teamleader of that team I joined with back then was into BOINC, and he advised me to create an account in the Seti BOINC project, it was only a few days after it went public, and so I did. It wasn't possible to get WU's very often those days, which those of you who were here back then know well, so I crunched a few more Classic WU's and then, after the WU's here started to flow more easily, I became a pure BOINC cruncher. And I have been ever since.

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

I belong to the Planetary society and i read an article about seti and thought it was cool. So joined. I had an old P1 back then. seemed to take for ever to crunch out a WU.

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Old James

I was over at my best friend's pad and he said check out this really cool screensaver.

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My dad told me about "a screensaver that processes radio signals searching for ET signs". I think long later, I found it on the Internet. The download page had a big warning saying "don't get this client, get BOINC instead". So I did.

I just searched for the account key email messages (remember those?) in my email archive. Looks like I joined SETI@Home on March 30th 2005, and Einstein@Home 7 hours later. And five more projects later in the same month :D

And a year later I was already in the boinc_projects mailing list asking for help in setting up my own project.

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I saw the screen saver on a co-worker's computer back in '02 and thought that it was very cool looking. I asked him what it was, and he told me it was looking for aliens. At first I thought he was putting me on, but then he told me to go to the website and check it out for myself, so I did.

I don't recall seeing anything about BOINC that early, but I signed up right away with Classic. I immediately started putting all my computers on SETI! I think my first computer on SETI back in '02 was a Pentium 4 1.6GHz or an Intel Pentium III 800EB MHz (I'm certain I had both crunching, just can't remember which was my daily driver at that time).

A short time later, I read on the main webpage that they were opening account creation of BOINC-SETI to the public, which I immediately moved almost all my machines to BOINC-SETI (and slowly moved the others a short time later). My first BOINC version as 3.19, which I still have. Nearly every version of BOINC released has/have not given my much trouble at all, and I was quite happy with the, from my perspective, smooth transition.

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. . . met Drew Lesso @ Al's Bar - in the Downtown Los Angeles Artist's District - which i was managing in the '80s

- wound up in his Studio where he introduced me to his Music

- a few years went by and he had his MAC running w/ the SETI@home Screensaver [Drew was one of the first WU cruncher's] . . . that day was February 29th 2000


the rest is History . . .

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Science Status Page . . .

I saw something about SETI on TV and was immediately sold on the idea!

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I was looking for technical help.
My team board is normal a AMD based tech help and news board.
While reading over the sites i found some nice looking signatures.
So i wanted to know more about it.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I saw a piece about Seti@Home and the screen saver on the BBC TV program Tomorrows World.

I only had dial up but I joined Seti@Home classic ten years ago Tuesday.

Doesn't time fly when your having fun.

Bernie

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First heard about S@h back in late '99, but didn't have a computer at that time. Finally got one (a very slow, "space heater" - 366 MHz) in early 2K, remembered about the SETI project in July of that year and downloaded it (dial-up at that time); machine was so slow, it took (what felt like) forever to crunch just one Work Unit.

That PC finally "died" after only 11 WU's, and it wasn't till not long ago that I finally got a fast tnough machine to run the new BOINC program with it.

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Back before I even owned a computer, we got the internet and web browsing to use in the electronic distribution business that I worked in for 17 years.

I read an article about Seti somewhere..it might have been on CNN. And having a scientific bent, it tweaked my interest right away.

I explained it to my boss, who was a very open minded older gentleman, and he had no problem with me running it in the background on my work computer after I showed him that it did not interfere with anything else.

A few months later, mostly because I wanted to run Seti@Home at home (already a stats hound, eh?), I built my first rig with a little help from a techno-geeky friend. A 233mmx....and he put the overclocking bug in me.

Which I was soon to find out was a bug with no known cure.

Ran through a batch of overclocked Sempron toasters...they did really run that hot...but it was when the Intel Core2 came on the scene that my Seti farming really took off. They overclocked like nothing I had ever played with before.

And the Kittyman was born....LOL.

I'll be at it 9 years in about 5-1/2 weeks.....and the bug is still strong with this one....meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

An intoxicated patron in a bar where I work told me about it. I think that he was trying to impress me with his vast scientific knowledge.

He didn’t impress me overly much but my interest was tweaked and, next day, I googled Seti at Home and here I am.

In my brief time here I have established a sort of love-hate relationship with the project, but have become somewhat adicted to BOINC.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

I was curious about the project that was keeping Eric from giving me around-the-clock attention. Guess I got hooked...

I belong to the Planetary society and i read an article about seti and thought it was cool. So joined. I had an old P1 back then. seemed to take for ever to crunch out a WU.

Ditto.

I was 15 and my dad told me about it, that was 10 years ago :)

I have forgotten my S@H classic log in info, so I out of luck with that.

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I was curious about the project that was keeping Eric from giving me around-the-clock attention. Guess I got hooked...

With that fishing gear, was there ever any ???

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

It was big news in the UK papers and TV. Simply had to join in just to see what it was all about. Expected we'd locate ET in a couple of weeks so wanted to be there at the time.
Here I am exactly 10 years later to the day.
Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to yet another nerd....

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I knew about S@H from it's inception, however, I did not join until I went online. (Up until then, I saved my money, and went to my sister's and used her PC and it's internet connection and...had my nephew begin crunching...lol)

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BETTER THE WORLD ~ PAY IT FORWARD
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I started on April 9 2004 and have done 64 Classic WUs on my PII Deschutes at 400 MHz before starting BOINC. Now I have an Opteron 1210 running Linux at 1.8 GHz, and I have 5 other BOINC projects running.
Tullio

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