Just wanted to officially start a thread for Rosetta birthdays.

Mine is past, so I went to the Class of 16 Nov, 2005 page on BoincSynergy and... Happy R-Birthday to laurelin!

I know we missed it by a lot, but does anyone know what day Rosetta was launched?

I know we missed it by a lot, but does anyone know what day Rosetta was launched?

Depends what you mean by launched.

Earliest news item in the db says

June 26, 2005
Rosetta for Windows and Linux platforms available. Initial work units are 2ptl ab initio folding tests

and it is heartwarmiong to know that they had two platforms available right from the start. The news item does not say it is open to the public at that stage.

Another early news item is

September 24, 2005
Welcome from David Baker and the first top predictions posted.

The fact that they had top predictions suggests that public opening had already happened - in which case it was a belated welcome to the earliest arrivals, or a belated link to it.

What is also easy to look at is the low numbered usernames, and the low numbered threads, and here things get odd.

The oldest users id numbers 1 to 13 are missing. This must be a db admin intervention as the website does not allow for user deletion.

David Kim has the lowest id no of any current user (user 14) and users 14 to 17 were all created 1st July 2005, later than the first test WU fro the news! Either they re-initialised the database, or the now-deleted first 13 users were crunching those early wu. Or maybe the wu were so dangerously buggy that they ate some of the early devs ;-)

User 18, Bin Qian, was created next on July 13. Then users gather in ones and twos till on 15th Sept we were still only up to user 34.

Then 35 people all joined on 16th Sept and another 282 on 17th, and about 220 on 18th. So from user ids it looks like public launch late on 16 September 2005 UTC, even if only to a selected audience at first.

Turning to the message boards, Thread no 1, message no 1 was not posted till 12 Sep 2005 17:54:53 UTC, so the boards were quite slow to get off the ground - or were reset before public launch.

First invitation into the Rosetta cafe was thread 17, and the First post in Number crunching was thread 18, both on 16 Sep 2005 after 23:00 UTC both by CaptainAvatar. We start to see all the usual suspects around soon after, mostly showing up as 17th UTC as midnight had just happened in Greenwich England.

So we could go for 26th June, 1st July, 12th September, 16th Sepetember, or 24th September.

Of that list I'd go for 16th September - the day the public started to arrive and the day the first posts in the cafe and NC were going up. Public account creation may have been enabled before 16th, but if so it can't have been publicised till 16th - probably in the afternoon Seattle time (evidence is the flurry of activity around midninght UTC, which comes late in the working day in Washington State).

Which makes Rosetta 14 months old to the day as I post this.

River~~

Wow! You seem to have spent a lot of time on my question! Thannks.

I'd agree on the birthday. It seems Rosetta was "conceived"in the summer months and after a short gestation period, borm into the world on Sept 16.

I didn't realize that I got in so close to the beginning. With userID 1517, I should have been able to figure that out.

In any case, happy belated birthday to Rosetta and happy birthday to everyone else as their special days roll around.

by the way, hugothehermit has taken up the discusion o when R@H statered to a new thread and has evidence the intended date was 17th. But I'd still stick with 16th as the de facto date.

R~~

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Turning to the message boards...

First invitation into the Rosetta cafe was thread 17, and the First post in Number crunching was thread 18, both on 16 Sep 2005 after 23:00 UTC both by CaptainAvatar. ...

whose real birthday (not Rosetta birthday) is today, 19 Nov. Happy Half Century Tim!

River~~

PS: But to get back on topic: any more Rosetta birthdays coming up ??

Today is my R-B-Day! After 1300+ posts, it hardly seems like only a year!

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Wow, it's hard to believe it's been a year and a half :)

As I recall, David Kim can correct me for having a bad memory, but the initial discussions about 'Rosetta@home' (it didn't have that name for several months) took place in April or may 2005. My department on campus was going to be the first contributor outside the Baker lab, so I worked with DK on the specs Rosetta needed to stay under (not using more than x mb or ram, y gb of disk, not impact other applications, etc).

David went off and began programming the application. I heard from him on 7/1 saying the site was up and to start testing. I installed it on my workstation and over the course of the next couple weeks eventually pushed it out to all 200 machines in our offices.

At the time, opening it up outside the university was 3 or 4 goals away. We knew we'd only have one shot so we wanted to make sure it worked on as many machines as we had access to (other computers on campus in computer labs and such).

We thought the next big step would be to advertise to the students on campus who live in the dorms (who generally have fast new computers and a campus broadband connection). I worked with our marketing department and came up with the 'Do you Boinc?' posters that were spread throughout the floors.

A couple weeks before the students were to arrive, word of Rosetta@home (it was named by this point) hit the net (I’m still not sure how word got out, nothing was secret, we just didn’t advertise). We were floored how many people were registering and doing work within hours. I remember sitting on the stats page hitting F5 watching the numbers go up :) For me it was exciting and scary. . watching the boards waiting for that first 'it deleted my hard drive' post. Luckily that never happened and the project has continued to explode.

Thanks again everyone for your help. . just as I couldn't have imagined R@H as it is now back in July of 05, I can't wait to see what it's like a year from now.

-Ethan

by the way, hugothehermit has taken up the discusion o when R@H statered to a new thread and has evidence the intended date was 17th. But I'd still stick with 16th as the de facto date.

R~~

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I was curious who the first folks were outside the UW to join. . Here's my best guess:

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/show_user.php?userid=36

It's fitting it's another David (after David Kim, David Baker, etc)

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Happy Birthday to me!!

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Happy Birthday to me!!

happy slappy birthday to you and many more!
now drink eat and be merry or get married lol

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Happy Birthday to me!!

happy slappy birthday to you and many more!
now drink eat and be merry or get married lol

Well, I've managed the first three but number four is a long way off...

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A wise old man told that we have one birth day the rest are

anniversaries!!!

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