Actually, it does go back a couple of months earlier, Nia.
If you recall, dontpanic made his famous
Statement on Froyo post at the start of November. That was after several weeks of us clamouring for an update on Froyo after back in the late summer we had been told Froyo would come in the "Fall". If you re-read the first few posts, you'll see that people responded with gratefulness for some news at last.
Perhaps nostalgia is tinting our glasses already