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SETI@home launches

When: 17 May 1999
Where: Berkeley, CA
Sources: 2 public sources

The SETI@home screensaver, which searched Arecibo data on volunteers' computers Alberthuang2 ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

UC Berkeley's SETI@home project went public, letting volunteers' home computers search Arecibo radio telescope data for narrow-band signals that might come from another civilization. About a million people joined quickly; no confirmed signal was found.

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OfficialSETI@home completes a decade of ET search (opens in a new tab)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory / 2009-05
OtherWhat Is SETI@home? (opens in a new tab)The SETI League

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