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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