Friday, April 27, 2007

~stevenf: Ten Years (And Counting)

Ten Years (And Counting):

Sunday, the 22nd of April, marks the tenth anniversary of Panic's incorporation.

I started working with Cabel and learning what is now known as the Carbon API slightly before that, in October of the previous year. But April 22, 1997 is the filing date of our original incorporation as an LLC. (We later changed to an Inc. at the urging of our CPA.)

So, it's the closest thing to a corporate birthday that we have.

Ten years!

To put this in perspective, when we founded Panic, I was coding on a PowerMac 7500/132 (as in 132 MHz, or 0.1 GHz) running System 7.5, with probably in the neighborhood of 4 to 8 MB of RAM.

Gil Amelio was running Apple (into the ground). You could still go to a store and buy a Newton, if you wanted to. I was doing nightly backups to 3.5" floppies. Windows 95 was still the most current version of Windows.