33 years ago...

it seems so innocent, lol

Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.

33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except ... the desktop.

(I'm paraphrasing his quote -- he said something like this years ago, can't find it, though.)

(Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I "hallucinated" the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else's comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )

“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.

...probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks,as that's all I have. :-(.

Cuteness.

As in hilarity.

(just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)

Aged like fine milk. Looking at you, GNU Hurd.

Yeah, I was looking at it today actually.

Happy Birthday, Linux.

There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.

that's all I have :-(

aww

Ehh, it'll never take off.

And an OS was born.

It was about as prescient as "640k is enough for everybody", but in a good way.

Jfc im older than Linux

That post changed my life, gave me a great hobby, which became a career, and still puts food on the table for me and my family to this day. Thank you, Linus.

GNU is older than Linux? Neat.

Truly humble beginnings.

This somehow makes me feel both old and young at the same time.

Ahh man only ata?

Has he come up with a name yet ?

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Portable

I’m OOTL, what’s the backstory here?

Happy Birthday!

I'm pretty sure the eventual conversion of every atom in the universe to computronium will run Linux.