Fascinating! I guess the late 1980’s was a good time to be a software developer
— there was obviously a great need for standardization of data and metadata
formats and software to optimize access and usability. GrADS was also born
around that time (1988), as was GRIB, BUFR, and HDF. I am sorry to have missed
netcdf-party-4.0.
—Jennifer (#ncfangirl)
On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Ed Hartnett <edwardjameshartnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We'll never be able to beat the (virtual) party we had for netCDF-4.0. From
> the history page that Russ provided:
>
> The first beta release of netCDF-4.0 was celebrated with a giant party at
> Unidata in April, 2007. Over 2000 people danced 'til dawn at the NCAR Mesa
> Lab, listening to the Flaming Lips and the Denver Gilbert & Sullivan
> repertory company. Brittany Spears performed the world-premire of her smash
> hit "Format me baby, one more time."
>
> Ed
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate
> <gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Where's the party?!
>
> gerry
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Dennis Heimbigner <dmh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We should have a 26th birthday this year :-)
> =Dennis
>
> Russ Rew wrote:
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> Glenn Davis and I developed and released netCDF 1.0 in June, 1989.
>
> Here's a brief description
> <https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/background.html> of the
>
> background and evolution of the netCDF C interface, mentioning how others
> were involved (Lloyd Treinish, Michael Gough, Dave Raymond, Joe Fahle,
> Angel Li, and Dave Fulker). I still have a printed copy of the original
> user guide, published as NCAR Technical Note TN-334+1A, from June 1989,
> "netCDF User'sGuide, An Interface for Data Access, Version 1.0"
>
> I sent an earlier email proposing the first Unidata netCDF C interface
> specification for comments in September 1988, before Glenn and I
> implemented the software it described, but I no longer have a copy of that
> email.
>
> --Russ
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Does anybody out there know when the very first version of netCDF was
> released?
>
> The release notes go back to version 3.3, released 1997-05-15, but there
> is reference to netCDF-2, and I was just curious about when netCDF was
> born.
> —Jennifer
>
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