Girder 10 Year Anniversary Competition

[Ron]

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!

1. The finder of the oldest reference to Girder will receive the Promixis Girder & NetRemote WHP Bundle free!! ($200 value)
2. The finder of the 2nd oldest page receives a free copy of NetRemote or Girder.

Rules:

1. 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
2. Who ever posts in this thread a link to the oldest page mentioning Girder wins.
3. If two people come up with the same link, first post wins
4. 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!
5. If no conslusive date can be found on the reference we might not be able to count the submission for the grand prize.
6. No purchase nessecary
7. If you won the first spot you cannot also win the second spot
8. Girder is defined as the automation software by Promixis, back then by Ron Bessems.
9. 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)

[mkanet]

Okay, Ron, I found told oldest known reference to "Girder" on the Internet. It's when you registered the Girder.nl domain name back in May 14, 2001.

http://www.whois.ws/domain_information-nl/girder.nl/

[speedbump49]

Ok I'm bite first.

Here 's May 14, 2001 reference. The day girder.nl was registered by Ron.

http://www.domain-registry.nl/ace.ph...x=16&zoek.y=12

[Ron]

Alright! That's a start, but not the beginning. I know of earlier references.

[NJKen]

There is a foreign language reference to Girder on this page back from Mar 03, 2001
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...rderplugin.htm

While I don't speak this language, Girder is mentioned on this page many times. I know this is the same Girder because I've used this site author's plug-in under Girder 3.x.

But if you count references to Ron's earliest incarnations of Girder, back before it was called Girder, this could be it:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...rrc/index.html
The Oct 10, 1999 version wasn't online when I tried to open it but the Nov 14, 1999 clearly shows an IR remote control project. And the page source of the page has Ron Bessems' name in it.

-Ken

[NJKen]

A Sourceforge project recommends Girder on Nov 09, 2000 here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/deinter...ge.net/FAQ.htm

"We also suggest the use of Girder from Ron Bessems..."

-Ken

[Ron]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...rrc/index.html

Does not refer to Girder, this was a parallel project under Linux. Surely some stuff learned was used but not Girder. Good find though.

[Ron]

November 9, 2000 is a good one!!

[NJKen]

I can't believe I forgot to check the link from the best page I last posted.

Here's a Apr 12, 2000 reference to a Girder 2.1 release:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...ze/girder.html

-Ken

[etron]

http://www.search-holland.com/search...&q=girder&Cnt=

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