I have run SETI@Home since near the start but I have lost my earliest accounts. They are out there somewhere...
I think this programme will be seen as the first attempt at Citizen Science in the future.
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.