It was twenty years ago today...

[Bron Gondwana]

Congrats Olly, and everyone else too. That's an excellent milestone, and as a user - thank you!

Cheers,

Bron.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, at 13:29, Olly Betts wrote:
> Xapian has turned 20!
> 
> Strictly speaking it was 20 years ago last month but I managed to miss
> the true anniversary - the oldest commit in the Xapian repo is:
> 
> commit 8ced76ea128c8fb2792477e09b41fa989f2e572f
> Author: Richard Boulton <richard at tartarus.org>
> Date: Fri Sep 10 09:50:40 1999 +0000
> 
>  Martins initial code, which didn't work for him but did for me.
> 
> Back then Richard, Martin and I all worked for BrightStation, and
> Richard and I were working in a small office high above the foyer of St
> John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK - just behind the "/" strut
> below the highest part of the roof about 1/4 in from the right of the
> photo on:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Innovation_Centre#/media/File:St_Johns_Innovation_Centre.jpg
> 
> This was before the project was called Xapian. Then 18 years ago
> (actually to the day):
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/omseek/mailman/omseek-discuss/?viewmonth=200110
> 
> Cheers,
>  Olly
> 
> 

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