Tom Grey, who is listed in the Jmol hall of fame, occupied a student desk in the communal comp chem section where I was, and he must have filled me in on the early developments. I know that Java was released in mid 1996, and apps started emerging in 1997. Perhaps Jmol was developed/gestated relatively “silently” during the period 1997-2001?, before it acquired a sourceforge presence (SF was only founded in 1999 and released for use in 2000!).
I have literally just (re)discovered this page from 1997: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/java/ <http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/java/> (Last Update: August 11, 1997) which lists a whole bunch of java applets developed around or less than a year since the language was released by Sun. This one, http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/java/applets/f2m2f/ <http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/java/applets/f2m2f/> was written around August 1996 by a french student Guillaume Cottenceau visiting London, and it still works! I wonder what happened to him? This one http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/nmr/ <http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/nmr/> comes from August 1997 and contains NMR and MS spectral viewers which also still work! So despite all the security issues etc, 20 year old Java is still capable of running! My reason for posing the question "Jmol Anniversaries?” is that I thought the 20th anniversary might have been approaching. Perhaps indeed it has? (PS the server http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk <http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/> started operation in August 1993 and probably contains a treasure trove of historical items which might reveal an answer?) Henry Rzepa, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-8390 > On 7 Jun 2017, at 09:26, C Anthony Lewis <cale...@plymouth.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi Henry, > > I guess the jmol-user list archive > (https://sourceforge.net/p/jmol/mailman/jmol-users/ > <https://sourceforge.net/p/jmol/mailman/jmol-users/>) might help with dates > for at least the last two. I note this archive goes back to 18/4/2001 at this > location, with the first message being one from you. However, this seems to > be a follow-up to an earlier message but I’m not sure where earlier messages > are archived, although I may have saved something locally. > > Anthony >
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