On January 2nd, 1991, a college student, Linus Torvalds, went to buy a new PC. Curious about its CPU capabilities, he ran an experiment that took an unexpected turn, and he became the leader of a tech revolution.Enjoy a cup of tea with this episode as we go back to Petersgatan, Helsinki, Finland. ☕00:00:00 A Quiet Start in Helsinki00:10:55 Building an OS by Accident00:16:24 Richard Stallman & The Hacker Heaven00:22:28 The Missing Kernel & The GPL00:26:51 "Linux is Obsolete" & The Global Explosion00:34:07 Version 1.0Visit the website to read all about how this episode was made.Audio Credit: Contains ambient audio from "🇫🇮 Linus Torvalds launches Linux 1.0 (1994) @ Helsinki, Finland (Finnish) | EXTENDED" by LINUX-SAUNA, used under CC BY 4.0Image Credit: "NewTux" by gg3po (based on original work by Larry Ewing) via Wikimedia Commons Licensed under GNU GPL v2+
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