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

[Peter Reilley]

Congratulations!
Time nuts has been such a great place to be all theses years for me even 
if the
information flow has been mostly one way.    I have learned an enormous
amount.

Pete.

On 1/1/2021 12:02 AM, 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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