I found this announcement from Bob Amstadt announcing the mailing list, this was dated September 16, 1993: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.windows.x.i386unix/browse_thread/thread/ee272fa922314342/a08260429f730cdf
But according to this status report, it was started in early June 1993: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.windows.x.i386unix/browse_thread/thread/88fbd87c0ae2e48f/5003eb8ed33ae522 Which makes your June 1, 1993 date sound about right :-). Looking a bit further in that discussion, you can see Eric making a call for volunteers the next day: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/106b5f2702b1c53d -Austin On Dec 19, 2007 12:26 AM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > winehq.org doesn't seem to have a link to the message > that launched the wine project, so I went looking. > > The first message I found contemplating it was dated 1 Jun 1993, > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/0a7c3867abdb4a76 > Is that about the right estimate for Wine's birthday? > > A roughly 1995 writeup about Wine is at > http://www.softlookup.com/tutorial/redhat/rhl58.asp > It has a screen shot of a game Pipe Dream running under > Wine. I just checked; the game is still online at > http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/pipe1.htm > and runs well on today's wine :-) > > >