On April 1, 1976, three men signed the founding documents of a company in a Los Altos garage: Steven Paul Jobs, Stephen Gary Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Frightened by the risk, Wayne sold his 10% for US$ 800 just twelve days later — a stake that would be worth tens of billions. Thirty-five years … Read more
On April 4, 1975, in a room at the Sundowner Hotel on Route 66 in Albuquerque, William Henry Gates III and Paul Allen formalized “Micro-Soft”: 60% for Gates, 40% for Allen, and a BASIC for the Altair 8800 computer as their only product. Fifty years later, Microsoft is worth trillions and runs more Linux than … Read more
On February 24, 2009, his birthday as he turned 33, Jan Borysovych Koum registered WhatsApp Inc. in California. The app did not yet exist. The name was a play on “what’s up.” Five years later, he signed the sale to Facebook — around US$ 19.3 billion — in the white building in Mountain … Read more
In August 1993, a 20-year-old Purdue student was frustrated with Softlanding Linux System. Broken packages, a fragile installation, a distribution treated as an afterthought. Instead of continuing to patch SLS, Ian Ashley Murdock (Konstanz, April 28, 1973) announced that he would start from scratch — openly, in the spirit of GNU … Read more
At 14, Aaron Hillel Swartz (Highland Park, Illinois, November 8, 1986) helped write RSS 1.0. At 26, on January 11, 2013, he died in his Brooklyn apartment while the US Department of Justice was prosecuting him for downloading academic articles. Between those two points: Creative Commons, Markdown, Reddit, Open … Read more
In 1994, a 30-year-old vice president at D.E. Shaw read that the web was growing 2,300% a year, made a list of 20 products, and chose books. He quit his job, crossed the country in a Chevy Blazer 88, and built a website in a Bellevue garage with a desk made from a door. Thirty-two years later, … Read more
On 25 August 1991, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki told the comp.os.minix group he was doing “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)”. Thirty-five years later, the kernel born from that hobby runs most of the internet servers, … Read more
Few technology figures are as polarizing as Elon Reeve Musk (Pretoria, June 28, 1971). A visionary of reusable rockets and electric cars to some; a volatile manager and owner-operator of a conglomerate (Tesla, SpaceX/SpaceXAI, Neuralink, X) to others. Before that, he slept on an office floor, lost the PayPal CEO role while on a plane, and was … Read more
Update (11 September 2026): CXMT published technical details and stated that LPDDR6 has already made its commercial debut in the Xiaomi 18 Fold. The text below separates this company confirmation from performance promises and broader industry conclusions. CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) has put its LPDDR6 into production and claims that … Read more
On August 25, 2026, Linux turned 35. In 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to comp.os.minix that would become history: Hello to everybody out there using minix — I am making a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional … Read more
