That post changed my life, gave me a great hobby, which became a career, and still puts food on the table for me and my family to this day. Thank you, Linus.
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And the rest, as they say, is history.
It was about as prescient as "640k is enough for everybody", but in a good way.
People back then just grossly underestimated how big computing was going to be.
The human brain is not built to predict exponential growths!
Jfc im older than Linux
Me too man, but not by much
Ahh man only ata?
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