It's been in at least since Erlang Day. I'd bet it's been a year or two.

It's always felt on the verge, but has never dropped off the edge. I suppose it's more exciting that way.

I'm assuming this is a different Erlang Day than the one I was here for, as I'm still a noob. (And on that note, how many have there been? And can we pick another language for subsequent days plz?)

i can recall two 'erlang days' so far.

the first happened when pg said the site was having some trouble coping with an influx of new users due to some high-profile mentions on other sites. he suggested posting articles about erlang to make the site look boring. i guess people complied a little more than he was expecting, so then he asked people to stop.

the second time was when the site was overrun with articles about _why, right after his disappearance. some people thought it was a little too much, which once again triggered an influx of erlang articles. it looked to me like pg and the editors started killing erlang articles after that, and possibly the _why articles as well.

It was there when I signed up a month or so ago. Beyond that, I cannot (obviously) say.

The Wayback Machine tells us it wasn't there in July 2008

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