▲ 1962 ▼ Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by DeaDSouL@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 169 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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 79 points 2 years ago (2 children) It is a happy coincidence that the evening before the 1970s began, at 4pm Pacific, they decided to invent UNIX. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) How so? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago Oh right, the UNIX epoch actually starts when UNIX was invented Somehow, I didn't expect that... permalink fedilink source parent [–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 1 point 2 years ago The world didn't exist before 1970. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) How so? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago Oh right, the UNIX epoch actually starts when UNIX was invented Somehow, I didn't expect that... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago Oh right, the UNIX epoch actually starts when UNIX was invented Somehow, I didn't expect that... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago Oh right, the UNIX epoch actually starts when UNIX was invented Somehow, I didn't expect that... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 1 point 2 years ago The world didn't exist before 1970. permalink fedilink source parent
