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Brian Kernighan invented the C programming language.
The UNIX operating system, the first major software written in C, was born. It was written by Ken Thompson (now @Google) and Dennis Ritchie.
The text editor vi created by Bill Joy.
Regular expressions created by Ken Thompson to search through C source code.
AT&T releases UNIX operating system as a commercial product.
Bill Joy (developer of vi and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)) went to found Sun Microsystems, and created SunOS and Solaris operating systems.
Servers and workstations were designed specifically for the UNIX OS.
Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project and later became the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
UNIX powers major server companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). DEC later created the very first Web crawler Alta Vista.
Despite its superior performance and functionality, UNIX failed to capture the graphical interface era. Microsoft Windows became the more popular choice for servers and desktops.
BSD gains popularity as a free version of UNIX.
Apple Computers chose BSD as the core platform for its next operating system: Mac OS X.
A college student Linus Tovalds created the Linux UNIX operating system.
Google was launched with PCs running Linux.
Desktop computers were no longer the focal point of innovation as the world shifts to the World Wide Web.
UNIX roared back to dominance in the server industry.
Specifically, Linux became massively popular among hackers and power users.
Graphical desktops (Gnome) for Linux began to mature.
University of Ontario Institute of Technology was created.
Google goes IPO, creating massive data centers for the first time in history using Linux powered servers.
Android was created by Andy Rubin. The core OS is Linux.
Android market share reached 80%, with over 2.5 billion active users. This makes Linux the most installed OS in the world.
Amazon Web Services was the No. 1 cloud provider, with most of its servers running Linux.
Microsoft Azure was the No. 2 cloud provider, with 50% running Linux - surpassing even Windows. Source
Deep learning happened.
Container technology happened.