I have been running SETI@home off and on since it became available way back in the "dial-up" days...
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I thought when SETI@home first came out that it was the best use of the internet I'd seen, twenty years later, I feel the same.
Not to mention, how awesome it would be to own *the* computer that finally sifts a repetitive signal from the chaos...
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.