Happy New Year to all the time nuts, and a big THANK YOU to you, Tom, for making the list available to all of us, from newbies to the top tier in time and frequency experts around the world!
Steve > On Dec 31, 2020, at 11:15 PM, Tom Van Baak <[email protected]> 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
