This is a mirror of the original Homespring spec and implementation by Jeff Binder. Theis was originally located at http:https://home.fuse.net/obvious/hs.html

The page has been offline since September 2003 and probably isn't coming back.

2003-04-14 : Jeff Binder posts Homespring to the esolang mailing list, with a Guile Scheme interpreter
2003-04-15 : Cal Henderson posts a limited Perl interpreter to the mailing list
2003-04-15 : Jeff Binder updates the original interpreter to handle the null program (to make trivial qunies impossible)
2003-05-03 : Tristan Parker demonstrates a unary adder on the esolang mailing list, suggesting truing completeness
2003-07-02 : Cal Henderson releases the final version (v0.04) of the Perl interpreter
2003-09-?? : Jeff's original page gets redirected from http:https://home.fuse.net/obvious/hs.html to http:https://www.rpi.edu/~bindej/hs.html, which is never indexed by the wayback machine
... time passes
2005-11-24 : Joe Neeman posts an updated spec and interpreter in Ocaml
... much time passes
2012-10-30 : Quin Kennedy releases a Node.js interpreter
2013-03-03 : Benito van der Zander releases a tool called home-river to express Homespring programs as a tree