Chris Cason wrote on 18/08/2019 15:22:
> It was 25 years ago today (18 August 1994) that I registered the
> POVRAY.ORG domain. While the project had a presence on the internet
> prior to this, the 18th was the beginning of having our 'own place' - a
> permanent somewhere that wasn't just a sub-directory or forum on someone
> else's server.
> 
> Having a domain dedicated to a free software project wasn't nearly as
> common back then as it is today (nor as easy to set up; options for
> hosting were very limited) and has allowed us to provide a stable
> location and email addresses for the project for a quarter of a century now.
> 
> I noticed this was coming up when I went to renew the domain recently.
> While of course it's no big deal in the scheme of things that it's
> turned 25, it has made me think a little about the early days.
> 
> (And who knows, maybe there's even some users here that weren't born
> when povray.org popped into existence ...).
> 

Thank you, Chris, for keeping alive one of the sites with the most 
imaginative people in the world!

Paolo

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