RE: ...still Very Clever and still not for me... by The Nutty Columnist
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What a story about putting your pc to work in the SETI project. Have you already written a post about that? Sounds really interesting and what a time huh?
We've come a long way since then 😅.
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I never did a dedicated post on SETI, but mentioned this project 4 years ago in this post: https://ecency.com/post/@edje/do-you-remember-seti-gridcoin-provides-the-network-for-any-service-to-make-use-of-any-idle-processing-time Thinking of it: It must have been 1995 when I started with SETI. Maybe early 1996.
EDIT: had to do some investigation... turns out, SETI distributed computing was released to the public in 1999 only. Mersenne Prime distributed computing was launched back in 1996. My grey cells were mixing up a few things in terms of time and all.
Still going strong at Seti: https://www.seti.org/ (no distributed computing though, since last two decades).
Ah cool to know about all of those different projects. Thank you for sharing those facts and your own story.
Wow, the '90's... I was definitely not into ICT and all it has to offer back then. If I could turn back the time with what I know now, I think I would be more into researching all of the options and puzzling the systems and hardware.
Never too late to enter the digital world. I remember I was keeping the analogue telephone line busy a lot of the time when I still used a modem to dial into bulletin boards (other computers allowing incoming connections). This was before the Internet was rollout. And before we had WWW. And before we had search engines. Interesting times. The phone bill was quite massive those days :)
Hahahaha I remember the dial-up times and it was because of that steep telephone bill, my dad stopped the service. After that we had to go to "cybercafé's" 😂. Only when the technology and the service costs got better, we had internet at home.
It's indeed never too late; no time like today right?
Absolutely! 👍