Found by searching the catalog number USNMENT00831792 on Entomology Collections Search
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So, it seems that the 2018_dataset has the timestamp pointing to the exact day 1.5 NEXT was released. I believe that I was at least partially correct when it came to the game versions having to do with the 365 memory blocks.
What stands out is that we all got together in discord to send to the 1532462220 (July 24 2018) timestamp and fill the Value field with emotions that the update evoked. This is perhaps what triggered it to post immediately as a Stable memory.
The 2016_dataset points to a user who was last active during the release of Atlas Rises update, which leads me to believe that perhaps we must do the same thing with the timestamp of that update, which is: 1502463000 (August 11 2017)
Requesting help of any who agree this could make sense 
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Sounds like you were definitely on the right track by catching the update numbers early, and I reckon you might be correct about the user.
In Memoriam of those who, seemingly, didnt return to the game after atlas rises? Seems so.
A big effort of the NMS10 celebrations from the community, is to draw old players back to have more concurrent players across all platforms than there were players on steam during launch day.
This seems to fit in with that ethos somewhat
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Atlas Rises added the travellers.
a holographic mystery
I think youâre onto something.
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A note that resonated to me was: âReconstruction cycle enhanced by collaborative inputs.â
Have we submitted yet the dates for each expedition yet? Perhaps the timestamp for Expedition 1?
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I remember this very funny mod of Seanâs Head, which was about between Expedition 2 and 3. Seanâs Head was a hilarious mod by WinderTP.
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Yes! I was fairly new to the NMS community at the time. Bought it in June after Prisms, so Frontiers was the first major update I got to experience the hype train leading up to, and Sean dragged it out over the course of an entire week instead of the usual few days, so the hype was real.
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This was such a funny period. Every day they made more and more things Seans head, threatening Sean to continue doing it until he released the update.
I like to think Sean delayed the update even more just to let this guy continue his hilarious work
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I canât make any sense of why the wasp is there, but its presence in the update despite having seemingly nothing to do with WT or NMS as a whole gives it an immensely foreboding aura. Iâm calling it The Wasp until 2016 gets solved.
Anyway, it was reviewed by the Smithsonian in December 2012, and the only thing I could find NMS-related in 2012 was development starting on 21 Dec according to a killscreen article.
Here goes?
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@Alterworld What about the swarm update, which was teased by a bee?
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That update released on 27 May 2026, which corresponds to this post. I donât think we can enter in timestamps that already have stuff in them, but technically only that specific timestamp is filled out, not the whole day. Feel free to enter it in!
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Talk about crazy coincidence, was looking up the first time I played NMS and turns out it was 6/6/2021. Doubt it will help memory reconstruction but submitted the following:
jonbot5k / ETARC
1623015606
Played NMS for the first time. Little did I know 5 years later to the day I would still be using the same save file on the Swarm Expedition.
edit: added to the googlesheet
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Commodore 64!!! I busted my butt in the summer of 92 to buy my first computer and it was a C64sx!
Yeah, I was late to the partyâŠ
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I barely made it. It was the last year anyone taught BASIC. Still have a C64. It works.
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Amstrad was my first
Gorillas throwing bananas on top of skyscrapers game
Saved on a âoh a 3D-printed save iconâ
Youngsters.
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Good times 
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I tried running No Manâs Sky on my old Sinclair ZX81, but it just wasnât powerful enough. I had to daisy-chain it to my ZX80 to get it to work.
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In the book âLeaky Establishmentâ by David Langford(?) about the UK nuclear research establishment at Aldermaston, someone plays space invaders on a teletype terminal.
Edit: thought I should mention that the book is fictional, but he did work there for a while.
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Michael Fraynâs book âThe Tin Menâ concerns early computer research, and contains one of the funniest lines I have ever read: âDoctors fought all night to save his life, but it overpowered them, and escapedâ.
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A topic was created by @the_architect , which appears related:
(Link included in top post)
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