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+Project History
+===============
+
+The Mesa project was originally started by Brian Paul. Here's a short
+history of the project.
+
+August, 1993: I begin working on Mesa in my spare time. The project has
+no name at that point. I was simply interested in writing a simple 3D
+graphics library that used the then-new OpenGL API. I was partially
+inspired by the *VOGL* library which emulated a subset of IRIS GL. I had
+been programming with IRIS GL since 1991.
+
+November 1994: I contact SGI to ask permission to distribute my
+OpenGL-like graphics library on the internet. SGI was generally
+receptive to the idea and after negotiations with SGI's legal
+department, I get permission to release it.
+
+February 1995: Mesa 1.0 is released on the internet. I expected that a
+few people would be interested in it, but not thousands. I was soon
+receiving patches, new features and thank-you notes on a daily basis.
+That encouraged me to continue working on Mesa. The name Mesa just
+popped into my head one day. SGI had asked me not to use the terms
+*"Open"* or *"GL"* in the project name and I didn't want to make up a
+new acronym. Later, I heard of the Mesa programming language and the
+Mesa spreadsheet for NeXTStep.
+
+In the early days, OpenGL wasn't available on too many systems. It even
+took a while for SGI to support it across their product line. Mesa
+filled a big hole during that time. For a lot of people, Mesa was their
+first introduction to OpenGL. I think SGI recognized that Mesa actually
+helped to promote the OpenGL API, so they didn't feel threatened by the
+project.
+
+1995-1996: I continue working on Mesa both during my spare time and
+during my work hours at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the
+University of Wisconsin in Madison. My supervisor, Bill Hibbard, lets me
+do this because Mesa is now being using for the
+`Vis5D <https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/%7Ebillh/vis.html>`__ project.
+
+October 1996: Mesa 2.0 is released. It implements the OpenGL 1.1
+specification.
+
+March 1997: Mesa 2.2 is released. It supports the new 3dfx Voodoo
+graphics card via the Glide library. It's the first really popular
+hardware OpenGL implementation for Linux.
+
+September 1998: Mesa 3.0 is released. It's the first publicly-available
+implementation of the OpenGL 1.2 API.
+
+March 1999: I attend my first OpenGL ARB meeting. I contribute to the
+development of several official OpenGL extensions over the years.
+
+September 1999: I'm hired by Precision Insight, Inc. Mesa is a key
+component of 3D hardware acceleration in the new DRI project for
+XFree86. Drivers for 3dfx, 3dLabs, Intel, Matrox and ATI hardware soon
+follow.
+
+October 2001: Mesa 4.0 is released. It implements the OpenGL 1.3
+specification.
+
+November 2001: I cofounded Tungsten Graphics, Inc. with Keith Whitwell,
+Jens Owen, David Dawes and Frank LaMonica. Tungsten Graphics was
+acquired by VMware in December 2008.
+
+November 2002: Mesa 5.0 is released. It implements the OpenGL 1.4
+specification.
+
+January 2003: Mesa 6.0 is released. It implements the OpenGL 1.5
+specification as well as the GL_ARB_vertex_program and
+GL_ARB_fragment_program extensions.
+
+June 2007: Mesa 7.0 is released, implementing the OpenGL 2.1
+specification and OpenGL Shading Language.
+
+2008: Keith Whitwell and other Tungsten Graphics employees develop
+`Gallium <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D>`__ - a new GPU
+abstraction layer. The latest Mesa drivers are based on Gallium and
+other APIs such as OpenVG are implemented on top of Gallium.
+
+February 2012: Mesa 8.0 is released, implementing the OpenGL 3.0
+specification and version 1.30 of the OpenGL Shading Language.
+
+July 2016: Mesa 12.0 is released, including OpenGL 4.3 support and
+initial support for Vulkan for Intel GPUs. Plus, there's another Gallium
+software driver ("swr") based on LLVM and developed by Intel.
+
+Ongoing: Mesa is the OpenGL implementation for devices designed by
+Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Vivante, plus the VMware and
+VirGL virtual GPUs. There's also several software-based renderers:
+swrast (the legacy Mesa rasterizer), softpipe (a Gallium reference
+driver), llvmpipe (LLVM/JIT-based high-speed rasterizer) and swr
+(another LLVM-based driver).
+
+Work continues on the drivers and core Mesa to implement newer versions
+of the OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan specifications.