Best wishes for this new year with the aim that it has to be better than 2020! I'm very impressed with the history of Time-nuts, thanks a lot to Tom and John and all the great people who made it The Place it is! ------ Message d'origine------De: Bob kb8tqDate: ven. 1 janv. 2021 20:18À: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement;Cc: Objet :Re: [time-nuts] 20th year of time nuts mailing listHi
Indeed a very Happy New Year to all. Let’s hope that it is *much* happier than 2020 … Thanks very much to Tom and John who put in an enormous amount of work to keep this list running and the interesting place it is. Keep up the good work !!! Bob > On Jan 1, 2021, at 12:02 AM, 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
