How Linux Was Announced to the World in 1991 [pic]

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Linux was created as a hobby by a Finnish computer science student named Linus Benedict Torvalds. But did you ever wonder how Linux was “announced”? Linus first told the world about his “hobby OS” on a Usenet posting on Aug 26 1991 at 2:12 am...

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Why the picture? The post is still up.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/comp.os.mi...

It's cool, but it's a pity that this thing is on Google Groups.

Where else would it be? I wasn't aware there even were any other Usenet archives out there.

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