Happy 25th birthday, Linux | TechCrunch

A big week for anniversaries; also see Happy Internaut Day: 25 years ago today the World Wide Web opened to the public (VentureBeat)

"Linux will turn 25 years old on August 25, the day Linus Torvalds sent out his fateful message asking for help with a new operating system. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things),” he wrote in the comp.os.minix message board. And the rest, as they say, is history."

Happy 25th birthday, Linux | TechCrunch