I don’t know how many folks participate in the public computing projects, but I’ve been doing so for so long that I don’t recall when I started. Today I received an email from the SETI@Home folks, who are analyzing data from various telescopes for any signs of extra-terrestrial civilizations, that they’re overwhelmed with data to analyze and need more participants. If you’re interested in joining the effort, here’s the link.
Hey, I remembered my password to SETI@Home – I probably haven’t logged in to the account in 3+ years! It says I’ve been contributing computing time since 27 Apr 1999. I wonder if I was running the Yggdrasil version of Linux at the time …