[Calvin Locke]

I did SETI for a while. At one point, I was in the 1% club with a Celeron 400. That must have been around 1999.

[Slainte]

I did 600ish WU’s on classic before they moved over to BOINC. Went over and ran Folding@Home for a long, long time after that across multiple CPU’s.

[VanDeKoik]

I thought it was the most advanced thing on my PC back then.

Honestly I dont know why this concept stopped. Maybe privacy concerns? Last thing we need are our PCs being used as a crowd computer for China.

[Viking2002]

Well hell, I’ve had it running one at least one PC since 1999. Sometimes multiple computers at home and work, until companies really started cracking down on their firewalls. (It’s hard to get a site white-listed without reason nowadays. Listening for little green men usually doesn’t pass muster, even if you’re in IT, was well.) Currently I run it on a quad-core Acer laptop and - wait for it - a Dell Latitude Pentium III C610 running XP SP3 with 512 MB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. LOL SETI@home was one of the main reasons why I’ve kept that tin lizzy running for almost 20 years. It’ll be good for nothing else but Fuji Golf and a few 32 bit screensavers and games now. But, it’s like an old pair of jeans in the closet with holes in the pockets and paint stains on them - you know you should get rid of them, but you just can’t bring yourself to part with them. Looks like it’s time to download copies of my certs and stats, then find some good abandonware to install. Might still be robust enough to play Wolfenstein 3D on.

[farming pharmer]

I did SETI for a while. At one point, I was in the 1% club with a Celeron 400. That must have been around 1999.

I did pretty well too with a dual Pentium III/450Mhz on a Supermicro motherboard. That was around 1999-2000 also.

BTW, I was using Slackware Linux at the time, and the kernel builds were amazingly fast!