It was twenty years ago today...

[Olly Betts]

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