Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

  • lars@lemmy.world
    781·
    10 months ago

    It is a happy coincidence that the evening before the 1970s began, at 4pm Pacific, they decided to invent UNIX.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        I think it’s a joke about how UNIX timestamps work. They count milliseconds from January 1st 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, which is 4pm the day before in PST. So the happy coincidence is that they invented UNIX at the very millisecond when its clock starts.

        There, ruined the joke.

        • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
          21·
          10 months ago

          Oh right, the UNIX epoch actually starts when UNIX was invented

          Somehow, I didn’t expect that…