When was Audacity set up?

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The project was set up by Dominic Mazzoni who is part of Google while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. On Dominic Mazzoni's website, (http://dominic-mazzoni.com/) states that he set up Audacity in 1999 and the first version was released in May 2000. Unfortunately, in my research from Part 1, I could not find out anything about the first version of Audacity but I will talk about the most stable version (1.2.6) and the beta version (1.3.4). The latest stable version as mentioned is version 1.2.6 which was released on 15th November 2006. The beta version (version of Audacity which is still in testing) was released a year after on the 13th November 2007. Version 1.3.4 is said to fix, improve or add:

• New Welcome Screen with introduction to Audacity.
• New 'Mix and Render to New Track' command.
• Support for VAMP audio analysis plug-ins.
• More keyboard shortcuts and navigation.
• Reworked solo/mute handling.
• New preference: Select all audio in project, if none selected (on by default).
• New preference: Beep on completion of longer activities.
• Envelopes: Many fixes when copying, pasting, or repeating.
• Many translation updates.
• Metadata editor added for OGG, FLAC and WAV/AIFF exports. Metadata import improved.
• Muted tracks are no longer audible in the exported mix.
• Improvements to latency correction.