Linus Torvalds

Born

Dec 28, 1969

Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969 in Finland

First computer

Feb 27, 1987

Linus purchased his first computer, which was the Sinclair QL.

Admitted to the University of Helsinki

Feb 27, 1988

Linus was admitted to the University where he studied computer science.

C programming class

Feb 27, 1990

Linus takes his first C programming class. Taking this class allowed him to create the language for the Linux operating system.

Linux

Oct 23, 1991

Linus announced the first version of the Linux, version .02.

Linux .12

Jan 5, 1992

A more or less stable version of Linux is released

Tove Nee Monni

Nov 28, 1993

Linus meets his wife Tove Nee Monni

Kali Linux

Jun 9, 1996

version 2.0 of the Linux Kernal was created, a significant improvement of the other versions of the Linux.

Lifetime Achievement

Mar 29, 1997

Linus wins the lifetime achievement award

World technology award

Jul 15, 2002

Linus received the world technology award from the world technology network

Open source development labs

Feb 28, 2003

Linus starts working for the Open source development labs

Portland

Jun 7, 2004

Linus moved with his family to portland, Oregon

Internet Hall of Fame

Feb 27, 2012

Linus is indicuted into the internet hall of fame

IEEE computer pioneer award

Apr 23, 2014

the institute of electrical and electronics engineers named Torvalds as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE computer society's computer pioneer award

Linus/Linux today

Feb 29, 2016

Today Linus owns the Linux trademark and Linux has more than 18 million lines of source code.