It’s 2006 and the founding team of Michael Berthold, Thomas Gabriel, Peter Ohl and Bernd Wiswedel took a moment here for this photo in between discussing who really did write the first line of code.
The very first version of KNIME Analytics Platform 1.0 was released on July 28, 2006 (and the first release t-shirt was born, sported here by Thorsten Meinl).