> What is special about March 1st and June 14th? The welcome page will display > a different welcome message from the message "The World's Most Popular > Network Protocol Analyzer" on these two dates. > > Just curious.
This got me very curious as well... so I did a bit of digging around and I finally found this... _July_ (Guy Harris' hint) 14th back in 1998 was probably the day Gerald announced Ethereal. I can't find any direct evidence of this, but the USPTO (www.uspto.gov) website suggests that was the date the trademark was first used publicly. The alternate statement is (was) of course the motto of Ethereal. April 1st is a bit more difficult. I can't find any major incident related to Wireshark/Ethereal linked to that day. So, my guesses: - Perhaps it was an important date in Gerald's switch to the new co.? - or, it is just meant to be a April fool's day joke? Not really sure. I hope no one 'destroy[s my] very existence' after this ;-) Abhik. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
