<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Oren Tirosh <<a href="mailto:orent@hishome.net">orent@hishome.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Historical Python-0.9.1</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">11 July 2013 10:49:55 EEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:webmaster@python.org">webmaster@python.org</a><br></span></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div>The oldest version of python currently found under <a href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/src/README" target="_blank">http://www.python.org/ftp/python/src</a> is version 1.0.1 from 1994. The README file ends with the following request:</div>
<div><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">Older sources
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If you find an older Python release (e.g. 0.9.8), we're interested
in getting a copy! <a href="mailto:webmaster@python.org" target="_blank">webmaster@python.org</a></pre></div><div><br></div><div>I have recovered Python-0.9.1 from usenet archives. It is dated Feb 19 1991.</div>
<div>A tar is attached, plus the script used to create it from the shell archive in the usenet posts.</div><div><br></div><div>Compiling it on a modern C compiler requires a some minor tweaks. It's quite fascinating to see the how the essence of Python has been there from the very beginning and how little the core language has changed in over 22 years.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Oren Tirosh</div><div><br></div></div>
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