Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old

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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 🤍

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

How so?

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.

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

Somehow, I didn't expect that...