"Mario Link" <m@riolink.de> wrote in message
news:Xns94CBAD8D4318F1010101m@riolink.de...

But that was only beta-testing :-) The real start of seti@home
was May 14 1999.

The official launch was 17 May 1999.  Check out their first birthday page:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/anniversary.html