Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
o At this meeting - we'll have a someone with 20 years experience using and doing systems administration of Debian.
Hey, I've been administering Debian since 2.1 'slink', as well, so that makes two decades for me, too. (The Official Debian installer was rather dreadful, then, and the replacement d-i installer introduced with 'sarge' (3.1) is miles better.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller
o Debian Birthday ("born" 2019-08-16) / Debian @ 25 / Debian Day / Debian Appreciation Day
I see that 'Debian Day' aka 'Debian Appreciation Day' is the anniversary of when the late Ian Murdock founded the project on 1993-08-16. Personally, I would want to count from the release date of the first public beta, v. 0.90, on 1994-01-26. Over 25 years either way, though.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/debian-0.91/ChangeLo...