History of the Bin

• The Early Years

  Nov 1995:

  User Bin is created by Lloyd Lim; directories are based out of /nobak/limunltd
  
  

  1995-1996:

  User Bin receives many contributions from users; Eric De Mund, Douglas Kaufman, and Todd McLaughlin make especially significant contributions
  
  

  Dec 1996:

  Lloyd burns out and fails to maintain the Bin

• How a Bill Becomes a Law

  29 Apr 1997:

  a2i announces that it intends to retire /nobak; discussions about the future of the User Bin begin
  
  

  May 1997:

  Eric De Mund announces his impending departure from a2i; more discussion about the future of the User Bin
  
  

  22 May 1997:

  Lloyd posts the 1st Request For Discussion containing proposed Bylaws for the User Bin
  
  

  3 Jun 1997:

  Lloyd posts the 2nd Request For Discussion containing slightly revised Bylaws
  
  

  7 Jun 1997:

  Jim Hurley, the neutral vote taker, posts the 1st Call For Votes; the voting period is one week
  
  

  15 Jun 1997:

  Jim announces that the Bylaws were approved with 17 voting yes and 2 voting no; Lloyd is underwhelmed; a2i considers the User Bin a low priority
  
  

  1997-1999:

  Douglas Kaufman fills some holes left by Eric De Mund's departure, but these contributions go unnoticed because Lloyd isn't maintaining the Bin; Bennett Todd creates and maintains a User Bin clone

• A New Hope

  29 Mar 1999:

  a2i introduces the first FreeBSD machine
  
  

  10 May 1999:

  a2i states that it will allocate resources to the User Bin, if the Bin supports the FreeBSD environment
  
  

  11 May 1999:

  User Bin states that it will add support for FreeBSD
  
  

  24 May 1999:

  a2i creates the userbin account
  
  

  25 May 1999:

  User Bin begins the process of moving to the userbin account and supporting both SunOS and FreeBSD
  
  

  10 Jun 1999:

  User Bin opens for preliminary use out of ~userbin
  
  

  15 Jun 1999:

  a2i finally retires the /nobak disk
  
  

  1 Jul 1999:

  User Bin officially moves to ~userbin; old directories out of /nobak/limunltd are phased out

• Return of the Jedi

  15 Sep 2003:

  User Bin updates website; web pages are updated to XHTML 1.0 Strict; mailto links are removed; email addresses are obfuscated