Will participation increase again?
 

After M24,036,583 participation soared. Will it again? Might depend on the media\internet presentation of M25,xxx,xx1. Too close to Mers-41 for comfort?
Why do people join or quit the priming game?
I guess about nobody is in it for the prize money or the rare glories.
How many are in it since 1997? I found myself scattered over four different identities:
(sounds like a disease :redface: )
Rank Acc ID LL P90* CPU yrs*
2063 Wouter Meeussen 76,27 40
17967 wouter meeussen 3,37 36
28599 W. Meeussen 0,94 10
2832 S98444 53,726 21
cause: PC crash, new PC, new email address & Acc ID (forgot old one).

keep up the good work, Scott, I 'll keep on priming.

W.

[QUOTE=wouter]How many are in it since 1997?
W.[/QUOTE]

I am in since 1997 :showoff:
[CODE]Account created: 10 Dec 1997 22:21 UTC[/CODE]
Does anyone remember how many accounts where active at the end of 1997? I still remember that i started with a Pentium-100 and iirc that system was able to finish some exponents per month back then.

Tau

[QUOTE=TauCeti]I am in since 1997 :showoff:
[CODE]Account created: 10 Dec 1997 22:21 UTC[/CODE]
Does anyone remember how many accounts where active at the end of 1997? I still remember that i started with a Pentium-100 and iirc that system was able to finish some exponents per month back then.

Tau[/QUOTE]

I started with an 80486/100 :smile:

"Those were the days..."

Luigi

I started in Jan 2002 and, along with an Athlon XP1800, I used the reference machine: Pentium 90!
Good and reliable old Gateway2000 PC. I still have it at home, although it is not crunching for GIMPS anymore :yawn:.

I suppose I'm a newbie...
 

Knew about it in 1997, but didn't signup until ...

[FONT=Courier New]Account created: 04 Feb 1998 03:08 UTC[/FONT]

First batch of systems were P66's. I've had up to 100 P3 Xeon systems running at one time (during client acceptance testing; yes I took them out of the loop correctly), but am back down to about 10 now. Even got up to the top 8 in factoring at one point, down to #17 these days...

-subgenius
(arg)

When I merged into Team Prime Rib, the teams creation date became mine:

Account created: 30 Aug 1997 23:06 UTC :showoff: :whistle: :bounce:

I was something like the 2nd or 3rd account on Primenet. :devil:

Can't remember what I was running back then. I think it was a Pentium Pro 166mhz. :flex:

Is "challenge" the first Primenet account ever?

By the way, I joined during the verification of M40.

I should have said user, not account. :surrender: Or a beta tester... :alien: