Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺
I lost track of how much equipment I used SETI@Home on for burn-in during the #dotcom era. It certainly helped my status on the leader board.

#UltraSPARC #Alpha , all the good stuff back then when computing was fun #setiathome https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/
For 21 years, enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET. UC Berkeley scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found. - Berkeley News

UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, turned up some 12 billion signals of interest. A lengthy analysis found 100 worth another look.

Berkeley News
Jan 16 at 3:25amWeb
Show threadNormanDunbarJan 16
@Tubsta I never got a hit on SETI@Home, did you?
Show threadJason Tubnor 🇦🇺Jan 16
@NormanDunbar No one ever knew. They shut down processing long before they validated candidates. But they would have been noisy about a direct hit if one came up on one of the @ home processors that’s for sure
Show threadNormanDunbarJan 16
@Tubsta Very true.
Show threadDavid SJan 16
@Tubsta ah the first app fired up after a cpu upgrade.