POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POVRAY.ORG's 10th anniversary : Re: POVRAY.ORG's 10th anniversary Server Time
8 Sep 2024 20:34:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POVRAY.ORG's 10th anniversary  
From: Lance Birch
Date: 18 Aug 2004 04:00:57
Message: <41230cb9@news.povray.org>
"Chris Cason" <new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote in message
news:4123084b@news.povray.org...
> POVRAY.ORG's 10th anniversary
>
> It was ten years ago today - on 18 August 1994 - that the POVRAY.ORG
domain
> was registered. We've been on the internet continuously since then. Back
in
> those days it was fairly unusual for a free software project to have its
own
> domain and/or server and the logistics of setting one up were entirely
different
> than they are now.
>
> The POV-Team would like to extend its thanks to all those who have helped
to
> make this happen, including Jack Velte of Walnut Creek CDROM for providing
our
> original hosting, Jordan Hubbard and the FreeBSD folks for early support
and
> the immensely stable OS we run on, Digimark for providing DNS for all this
time,
> and Netplex Internet for providing fast and reliable hosting for many
years and
> generally being darn cool folks.

And I'd like to extend my thanks to the POV-Team!

I remember checking out www.povray.org in, I think, around 1995 - one of the
first websites I ever visited.  What a difference it's made for all of us...

Congrats, and here's to the next 10 years!

Lance.


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