With the release of Girder 5 comes a little time of reflection and how far Girder has come since those small beginnings in a student dorm in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in the fall of 1998 to a full fledged company in Santa Barbara, CA supplying commercial, industrial and home automation solutions to the world. It has been a great ride and as the CEO of Promixis I am proud of how far it has come.
To celebrate this occasion until September 30, 2008 (noon Pacific time) we will have a contest.
(If no more submission come in for a while we might call the contest earlier)
Find the OLDEST reference to Girder on the web.
Prizes!
- The finder of the oldest reference to Girder will receive the Promixis Girder & NetRemote WHP Bundle free!! ($200 value)
- The finder of the 2nd oldest page receives a free copy of NetRemote or Girder.
Rules:
- There are no losers, if you enter a valid URL mentioning Girder you get a 20% discount on Promixis Software (valid through September 30, 200
- Who ever posts in this thread a link to the oldest page mentioning Girder wins.
- If two people come up with the same link, first post wins
- No, you cannot create a webpage and date it back, we have our ways to find out! Besides what is more fun then a real hunt!
- If no conslusive date can be found on the reference we might not be able to count the submission for the grand prize.
- No purchase nessecary
- If you won the first spot you cannot also win the second spot
- Girder is defined as the automation software by Promixis, back then by Ron Bessems.
- These rules might be amended if nessecary,.. I know you cheaters
FYI version 1.x was never released beyond my friends and I believe 2.x never had any great exposure, but if you can find it on the web I would be very impressed.
Semi Current Status (as of my last check)
1: January 11, 2000 Jonkjon Looks like an old announcement translated to polish,.. and back again
2: February 23, 2000 NJKen (The actual Girder 2.x webpage)
3: March 24, 2000 etron (Search engine listing)