No, it is not me turning 40...

Autodesk turns 40 years young on January 30, 2022 after being founded January 30th, 1982. To celebrate this momentous occasion the Autodesk Community will be sharing some of your stories and memorabilia over the years. There are very few technology companies that have reached the 40 year mark.

We want you to be involved and to hear your stories and see images.

• Share your story of AutoCAD or Autodesk products or just old technology like that slow retro 287 desktop I have in my home office running native AutoCAD 1.2 and 2.18 on DOS.
  
• Share your photos, perhaps a project, you at an old PC, your old Autodesk product box. The story of how long you have used Autodesk products and journey in your career.

Here is Autodesk customer, Shaan Hurley (me), Mechanical Designer of Oregon Iron Works Portland Oregon in 1997. I was interviewed for the AutoCAD R14 demo CD.


Here is my first Autodesk employee badge as well as a photo of me in my San Rafael office back in 1998.


• Maybe create a fun 2D or 3D birthday cake for Autodesk’s 40th using your current or the older retro products.
  
  

Email me your stories and images to [email protected] with the subject line “Happy 40th Birthday ADSK”.

We will hold a fun Autodesk Turns 40 Years Young Community Conversation discussing these stories and showing images together n Friday January 28th at 10:00am PDT..

• AutoCAD History
• Old AutoCAD Release Gallery
• Autodesk History Gallery

Cheers,
-Shaan