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MySQL Mug and Ten Years of MySQL and PHP
Jamesday writes "Monty Widenius accepted a plaque celebrating ten years of MySQL and PHP at LinuxTag. Until the end of June MySQL also has some 10th anniversary MySQL mugs on sale which feature the names of all MySQL employees in April 2005, about 200 people who can personally testify that you can make a living from open source software. Since Slashdot and MySQL share many users in common, I asked the MySQL community manager to give some mugs away to the Slashdot crowd. An arbitrary number of registered Slashdot posters, at least one, whose answers are closest to the exact date when MySQL 1.0 was first released internally will get one. Answers in response to this post, 24 hour time limit; no employees, former employees, their relatives or others we think should be ineligible. Winner(s) will be notified by a reply to their post."
May 15, 1995?
April 19th, 1995.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Since this is in June... the internal release must have been in mid May . Anyway, I just picked it because it's my birtday ;)
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must have been April 25, 2005.
Those liars.
May the 28th 1995 , at 2:37 PM and 13 seconds
Big shout out to Nostrodamus for that one
"There is also a reference to three years and seven months of peace before the war. Breytenbach told the newspaper that he suddenly realized that the Dayton peace accord was signed Nov. 21, 1995 and that adding three years and seven months to that brings us to the end of June 1999. But that Nostradamus passage is open to other interpretations. An alternative is that an alien being (King of Terror) will descend from the sky, destroying and enslaving humankind.""
Which clearly means that Mysql was released on may the 28th accounting for nostrodamus and his eccentricities in adding extra months and 2 days. Clearly the king of terror relates to mysql
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Wonder how many others scurried off to Wikipedia .. no luck there though, so I'm just guessing.
Mug. n. a someone who chose to use mysql when other were available....
May 02 1995, 2pm.
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Dec 10, 1994 perhaps? Assuming the delay is about six months or so.
It was a thursday.
Here is a 1995 calendar for Sweden.
And don't bother to look here or here: the answer is not yet there.
February 14, 1995
My vote goes towards May 6th, 1995.
i'm gonna go with the ides of may (not march) - may 15, 1995
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See subject.
They should offer a mug to the one who will add an History section to the Wikipedia article...
...written here.
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." -- Salvador Dali
May 18 1995.
Or else some other day.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
28 April 1995...and that's a complete wild-assed guess
We'll shoot for 14 April 1995, but that's probably way off.
I'm going to go with Marth 15th 1995
// Ziekke
is my wild guess :)
They were aiming for May 1st, but missed it by a day.
-Ryan
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1st Jan 1970.
Did I win?
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Internally, it must have been april the 1st :D
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it's my birthday ;)
April, 24th 1995
January 27, 1995, found by the magical "dart in a calendar on the wall" method.
If it was really a Thursday... (see post above).
My guess is March 1, 1995.
I'm probably wrong though.
I'm always a bit off on these things.
I'm so depressed.
May 2, 1995.
The second of May, '95. Why not? It must have been in May, they started with the mugs a while back, and it makes sense to release at the start or end of the month.
Reason #1: It was a thursday :)
Reason #2: It would be a nice conicidence if it was released the same day as Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0.
So it's a trick question; 1.0 hasn't been released yet (last stable version 0.9.8.2137, latest nightly 0.9.9.3334), but real soon now!
More precisely: 1995-05-09 08:13:20 +0200.
By the way, I've never seen that message before:
It was: April 2nd, 1995
April 2nd, 1995
May 9, 1995.
:)
Good old TCX DataKonsult AB.
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There's just something about getting the employees to sign the mug in April... and this keeps with it being a Thursday (if that's more than just a rumor) and happens to be very close to the day that this article was posted.
..give or take a couple of minutes
After all, we are talking about a DB with lackluster features and poorer performance compared to other databases.
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Just in time!
The last fucking thing you want is my undivided attention...
April 2
May 9, 1995
June 10th, 1995
Well it was released on "Cinco De MySQL" of course. 5-5-95... no research, just an arbitary guess.
Staying away from the April/May/June herd.
And we're just now getting stored procedures! Welcome to ten years ago!
March 5, 1995
:-)
Random date from old documentation.
Would 26 April 1995 do?
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May 4th, 1995. My wild guess is as good as anybody's!
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May 9th, 1995
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15th of May 1995.
I'm going to guess Febuary 20th 1995. I saw a date in some old docs of March 5th and figure it predates that.
January 11, 1995
Wishful thinking?
I really wanted to change my sig to something witty, but all I could come up with is this.
Wild Guess...
Or maybe... no wait...
include $sig;
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Feb. 15, because I bet a lonely nerd stayed up all night on Valentine's Day to get it ready.
May 5, 1995
...is my guess. Go MySQL!!
I pick April 18, 1995. 11:20am.
Doug
Test.
My guess
May 7, 1995... ok, maybe not, but that'd be pretty neat :)
When the build actually built and the poor guy stressing screamed.
Why? Dunno. Just typing the date that popped into my noggin;-)
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Just a guess.
Why not?
That must be it.
March 15, 44 BC...I mean, March 15, 1995.
That'd be April 6th. I wanna mug sooo baad...
April 29th, 1995
or so.
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I learned this on The Price is Right. Wait, what are we guessing?
I am guessing somewhere MySQL was released internally around February 14, 1994.
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Seems like as good a guess as any. The hive mind seems to think it was in the spring, and that's my birthday. We'll go with 04/20/1995. Or is that 20/04/1995?
Just a W.A.G.
My birthday!
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
'nuff said.
I love MySQL and I love my Mother. Therefore, my Mother and MySQL must share a birthday.
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Should have been close to 3. June 1994
Yet another typo graces the front page of Slashdot. Of course, what they meant to say was:
"No employees, former employees, their relatives or others, we think, should be ineligible." Hurrah for inclusivity.
Don't know why but seems like a good day.
Congrats!
The exact date, according to Monty, was May 23rd.
So you were pretty close.
Please email me (arjen [at] mysql [dot] com) with your name/address details, and I'll make sure you get a mug and other stuff I can find.
Note that as your email is not public on slashdot, it's upto to prove that you are you.
Regards, Arjen.
Community Relations Manager, MySQL AB
Hi everybody,
;-)
According to Monty, the correct answer for MySQL Version 1.0 is 23rd May 1995.
Two people got really close, 20th and 26th May, so they will each get an anniversary mug and other stuff.
The person who rambled on about Nostradamus amazingly got close as well (May 28th) and I reckon that in any case such creativity deserves to be rewarded
Those who assumed that there was any significance in when I first put the mugs online... sorry. The mugs just appeared when Mike Zinner finished the design.... At the time, I did not even know the precise date. We had to ask Monty later.
Thanks to everybody for their participation and good humour.
Regards, Arjen.
Community Relations Manager, MySQL AB
I just had completely no idea , so i did what anybody would do in that situation. .
Google search for Nostradamus and 1995
I forgot to add something about the 3 years after the date and the terror being slashdot hitting servers
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Nooooooooooo! :(