[Bf-committers] 15th anniversary of blender :)

[Michael Fox]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 15:15 +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was editing blenkernel/intern/blender.c and suddenly saw this in the 
> header:
> 
> blender.c: /*  blender.c   jan 94     MIXED MODEL */
> 
> I checked backups, and could even find a blender.c from dec 1993, 
> exactly 15 years ago! At that time it was only a test for a subdivision 
> layout system, it didn't do anything.
> 
> Grepping in an old C code backup gave me this history;
> 
> screen.c: dec/jan 93/94
> usiblender.c:  jan 94
> space.c:  jan/july 94
> view.c:  jan 94
> drawview.c: april 94
> toets.c: may 94
> drawipo.c: may 94
> drawseq.c: may 94
> headerbuttons.c: may 94
> edit.c: may 94
> genfile.c: june 94
> readfile.c: june 94
> mywindow.c: juli 94
> library.c: aug 94
> buttons.c: aug 94
> 
> Summer 1994 Blender became sortof usable.
> So... let's presume dec '93 was the conception, and august '94 the 
> birthdate of Blender? Then we got something to celebrate at Siggraph 
> 2009. :)
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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Indeed we should, Congratulations to all for so many years of blender :)
-- 
Michael Fox <mfoxdogg at gmail.com>