[time-nuts] 20th year of time nuts mailing list

[Hugh Blemings]

Hi Tom, All,

Thank you for sharing such a great remembrance!

At about five years subscribed I'm a newcomer and certainly at early 
stages of my time-nuttery journey, but none the less time-nuts remains 
my favourite 'net mailing list for all the reasons you outline - the 
exceptionally high SNR, fascinating discourse and just plain lovely 
bunch of folk that are involved.

Thank you to Tom and all who keep it ticking over and to all that 
contribute to the discussions.

The very best for 2021 and beyond

vy 73
Hugh
VK3YYZ/AD5RV

On 1/1/21 4:02 pm, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Hello time nuts,
>
> Ah, it is 2021-01-01 (JD 2459215.5, MJD 59215) which is nice because 
> that means it's not 2020 anymore.
>
> One reason I've been looking forward to 2021 is that it's now 
> officially the 20th year of the time nuts mailing list. So this is a 
> note to say *thank you* to everyone for making it so amazing over the 
> years. I get comments all the time about this mailing list; its depth, 
> its high SNR, its focus, its vast archive of quality postings, and 
> especially, the community that evolved around the list.
>
> On the web the phrase "time nut" is now a proper noun, sometimes an 
> adjective, or occasionally a diagnosis or disease. Never in my wildest 
> dreams did I think any of this would happen. I thought my early 
> interest in nixie tubes, clocks, electronics, and precise timing might 
> be a passing phase, and that the frequency of eBay purchases would 
> fade. But no. This turns out to be an incredibly wide, deep, 
> interesting, and rewarding hobby. The mailing list started with 6 
> people (half of whom are still active) and we now have 1850 members. [1]
>
> Speaking of history, and also to put time-nuts into perspective, I'd 
> like to mention that leapsecond.com (tvb) and febo.com (jra) predate 
> Y2K (2000), wikipedia (2001), facebook (2004), youtube (2005), twitter 
> (2006), reddit (2006), iPhone (2007), duckduckgo (2008), gmail (2004, 
> 2009), eevblog (2009), instagram (2010), snapchat (2011), outlook 
> (2012), and literally millions of other web sites and mailing lists.
>
> When this all started for us it was WWV on short-wave, ACTS by phone, 
> Loran-C, GOES, WWVB, GPS, Win98, dial-up, and my search engine was 
> altavista.dec.com. It's scary to think how much has changed in 20 
> years. Fun fact: I started leapsecond.com so I could post the results 
> of a Y2K Colorado visit to NIST. If the world was going to crash I was 
> going to be at ground zero, with a camera. [2]
>
> Anyway, stay safe, stay healthy, stay timely. Here's to a new decade 
> and a happy new year to all of us.
>
> /tvb
>
> [1] http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm#history
>
> [2] http://leapsecond.com/y2k/
>
>
>
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