On 20 January 2015 at 19:47, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you look at http://wstein.org/sage_old/ you'll find the first few
> tarballs of Sage I ever released.  The first one [1] has a README that
> starts:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      SAGE -- Software for Algebra and Geomtry
>      Copyright (C) 2004 William Stein <w...@math.harvard.edu>
>
>      Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
>      See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is the README.txt file for the source distribution of SAGE,
> version 0.1, 2005-01-23.

Congratulations!  Let's declare 01-23 World Sage Day -- this year and
every year!

William, I think you can be very proud of what your started.

John


>
> ...
>
> I think this was the first-ever public release of Sage.   I made it
> inspired by a conversation at the 2005 JMM with David Joyner, who saw
> me working on my private code there.
>
> Based on that date, we could say that Sage will be 10 years old this
> Friday.    Alternatively, it seems the first tarball I posted has the
> date Feb 28, 2005.
>
>
>
> [1] http://wstein.org/sage_old/sage-2005-02-28-2112-src-0.1.tar
>
>
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>
> William Stein
> Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
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