Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

David Eisner deisner@gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 18:45:31 GMT 2020


On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:51 PM Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 23 19:53, Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 02:33:13 PM EDT, David Eisner via
> Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In any case, happy 25th anniversary, Cygwin! Thanks to everybody who
> made it and continues to make it possible.
> > I purchased the 1.0 release CD in 1999:
> > https://imgur.com/2UnLDhk
>
> I still have a shrink-wrapped 1.0 package, never opened since we had two
> of them.  This pristine copy is probably worth millions now!1!11
>
>
Don't spend it all at once. Happy official birthday, Cygwin! I don't have
cake after all, but I am noshing on some lemon cookie thins.

Thanks again, everybody.

-David


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