Video summary: this article is a detailed summary of “How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts” from Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu community leader at Canonical. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student wrote a sentence that Jono Bacon … Read more
Intel invented the memory market, then abandoned it; invented the microprocessor almost by accident; put “Intel Inside” in offices around the world; and then lost, in succession, mobile phones, Apple, and the manufacturing leadership that defined it. Few companies explain so much of computing history. This is its journey … Read more
In 1993, three engineers met at a Denny’s restaurant in California to found a graphics chip company in a market that already had dozens of competitors. Thirty years later, that company would become, at several points, the most valuable on the planet. This is the history of NVIDIA: from the flops that almost killed it … Read more
No technology company has died and been reborn as many times as AMD. Founded in 1969 to live in Intel’s shadow, it spent five decades alternating strokes of genius (Athlon, x86-64, Zen) with trips to the edge of the abyss — until an engineer named Lisa Su turned a US$ 2 stock into the largest … Read more
In 1984, while IBM and Apple fought for headlines, a 19-year-old freshman studying medicine was assembling PCs in his University of Texas dorm room. He discovered something the giants took decades to understand: selling directly to customers, without inventory or middlemen, changes everything. This is the history of Dell … Read more
Before there was a “Silicon Valley,” there was a wooden garage in Palo Alto. There, in 1939, two recent Stanford engineering graduates founded the company that would define the model for every startup that followed: Hewlett-Packard. This is the history of HP — from garage to giant, from calculators that retired the slide rule … Read more
Go began on a Google whiteboard on September 21, 2007, because C++ took too long to compile. In November 2025, the language marked 16 years of open source development. In September 2026, the stable release is 1.27.1. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, the go you install on Linux — all of it descends … Read more
On 28 July 2025, a researcher from the University of Utah was cleaning out a storage room when he found a nine-track magnetic tape whose label read UNIX version 4. Until then, only the manual had survived from that version of 1973. … Read more
