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last posted June 22, 2014, 1:44 p.m.

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I didn't even know freshmeat.net had rebranded as free(code) but on 18 June 2014 it ceased operations and became a static site.

created June 22, 2014, 1:32 p.m.

freshmeat.net was the place to make release announcements back in the day (back when you hosted your project on SourceForge and read Slashdot).

created June 22, 2014, 1:33 p.m.

I signed up on freshmeat.net on 1999-06-25 (my user page) so coming up to what would have been my 15th anniversary.

created June 22, 2014, 1:34 p.m.

The peak of my usage was in 2001 when I was really getting into open source Python. My projects at the time were Redfoot and PyTREX.

created June 22, 2014, 1:37 p.m.

This reminiscing now has me moving Redfoot and PyTREX over to github :-)

created June 22, 2014, 1:44 p.m.

reposted to Moving Old SourceForge Projects to GitHub