Wow! Apparently as of 2020 SETI@home is "in hibernation" -- end of an era if this is/was the end. I remember running their screensaver on my 386 in 1999 and dreaming about having enough processing power to actually make a dent.

RIP if this is it. Screenshot not mine: GPL, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.

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@andrew I remember running this at one of my jobs. It was actually very cool to watch, and I loved the idea of distributive processing throughout the world. I always hoped my computer would find something!

I looked at running it again in 2021 and found that they had shut down. I felt as if I had let the world down, a bit

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