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Linux Timeline By LWN and LJ

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-my-navel dept.

A reader wrote to us with the link that Linux Journal has put together a Linux Timeline. Kinda nice to walk down memory lane - and think about what was on peoples' mind at each major point. Of course, if I see the original letter Linus wrote at the beginning one more time...*grin*

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  1. Timeline! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2005 : Open Source programmers get laid.
    2006 : All Open Source development halts.

  2. Most Recent Entry... by TibbonZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    7.22.2002- The Linux Timeline gets ./ed, showing that even though Linux can hold up, even the best internet connections can't.

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    Tibbon
    tibbon.com
  3. They forgot April 1991! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Bill Gates wakes at 2:25 in the morning, weeping for no apparent reason.

    Steve Ballmer imitates a monkey and gets big laughs at at a party.

    John Ashcroft gets the shivers, and puts down the Peep-Hole magazine he was reading in sudden unease.

  4. Linux timeline by Rupert · · Score: 5, Funny

    July 2002: Linux Journal still not capable of withstanding a slashdotting.

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    E_NOSIG
  5. funny things from Linus's first post.... by jeffy124 · · Score: 4, Funny

    hmmm. if only Linus knew what was to come when he wrote the following in his first posting to the minix newsgroup:

    It is NOT protable .... probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks

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    The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
  6. Milestone #101 by DasBub · · Score: 4, Funny

    February 11th, 1999

    I stop pronouncing it "Line-Ux"