{"id":649,"date":"2009-03-15T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akuadi.org\/life\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-06-07T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T09:06:19","slug":"15th-birthday-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akuadi.org\/life\/blog\/2009\/03\/15\/15th-birthday-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"15th Birthday Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duggback.com\/linux_unix\/Happy_15th_Birthday_Linux_3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duggback<\/a><\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><a class=\"top\" href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/5169216\/happy-15th-birthday-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy 15th Birthday Linux<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"post-byline\">By <cite><a title=\"Click here to read posts written by JOHN MAHONEY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/people\/johnmahoney\/posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Mahoney<\/a><\/cite>, \t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/5169216\/happy-15th-birthday-linux\" target=\"_blank\">12:01 AM<\/a> on Fri Mar 13 2009, \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t18,397 views<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; right: 0px; margin-top: -20px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 10px 0pt 0pt -10px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndigg_skin = 'compact';digg_bgcolor = '#F1F8FA';digg_url = 'http:\/\/digg.com\/linux_unix\/Happy_15th_Birthday_Linux_3';\n\/\/ --><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start -->Hey <a class=\"tagautolink autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged LINUX\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linux<\/a> kernel! You&#8217;re 15! You know what that means\u2014look back on fond times, recompile, and gather all of your copyright-reform-loving, terminal-typing friends and have a rager!<\/p>\n<p>After 15 hard punches to the flipper, we&#8217;ll recount the important moments in your life and the accomplishments you&#8217;ve managed to rack up before even being allowed to legally buy cigarettes and porn in most states:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>1987<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MINIX<\/a>, the more dangerous and hardcore older brother you&#8217;ve always idolized, was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>1991<\/strong>: Linus Torvalds is pissed he can&#8217;t access his university&#8217;s UNIX servers to his liking, so he wrote the code that would become your DNA. Which I guess is better than your parents just getting blind drunk and conceiving you in their Vegas drive-through honeymoon suite.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>March 13 1994<\/strong>: Judging by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldlinux.org\/Linux.old\/docs\/history\/1994.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this pretty hardcore looking log file<\/a>, your version 1.0 was release on this day 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>1996<\/strong>: You&#8217;re two years old, and you already have a logo. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tux the penguin<\/a> is created.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/2009\/03\/custom_1236915258058_Richard_Matthew_Stallman_cropped.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"201\" \/>\u2022 <strong>1998<\/strong>: Richard Stallman, kind of like your step dad, shaves his beard. It grows back to the same fullness the next day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>November 2000<\/strong>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxdevices.com\/news\/NS7556981668.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first Linux-powered cellphone<\/a> is announced, the IMT-2000 in Korea. It was developed by SK Telecom, Seoul National University and &#8220;PalmPalm Technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>2003:<\/strong> IBM releases those creepy ads comparing <a class=\"tagautolink autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged LINUX\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linux<\/a> to an (autistic?) sponge-like kid soaking up all the world&#8217;s knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embeddedVideoThumbnail\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2009\/03\/EwL0G9wK8j4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>2004<\/strong>: Ubuntu&#8217;s first release. You&#8217;re going mainstream kind of!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>???<\/strong>: Linux will finally power the toaster in my home.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a great life, and here&#8217;s to many nerdier years to come.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ok I just wrote a birthday card to an operating system. I think I need to go shotgun a Coors Lite to balance out the 1,020 geek points I just accumulated. Shotgunning it just <em>because<\/em>, not in honor of any birthday or anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Duggback Happy 15th Birthday Linux By John Mahoney, 12:01 AM on Fri Mar 13 2009, 18,397 views Hey Linux kernel! You&#8217;re 15! You know what that means\u2014look back on fond times, recompile, and gather all of your copyright-reform-loving, terminal-typing friends and have a rager! 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