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title = "Unix history"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-05-30T21:03:00+02:00
categories = ["unix-history"]
draft = false
weight = 2001
image_dir = "unix-history"
image_max_width = 480
primary_menu = "bsd"
aliases = ["/bsd/history//"]
shortname = "History of Unix"
[menu]
[menu.bsd]
weight = 2001
identifier = "unix-history"
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To say that the history of Unix is long and convoluted would be a huge understatement.
It started its life as a gaming OS dressed as typesetting one in a forgotten alley in an research center, but soon became the most important idea in modern computing history.
No other OS had such broad impact on how we work with computers. And despite that, it's mostly a forgotten name.
It lives in it's ideas and licenses, but very rarely do we think about running Unix.
This site is a fang, and a love letter to computer history.
To the brilliant minds and sleazy lawyers.
To the original, the followers, and imitators.
{{< image class="centered" alt="A group of characters in the style of Unix Surralism." file="header-transparent.png" >}}
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## Table of contents {#table-of-contents}
{{< menu "unix-history" >}}
Dune
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## Acknowledgements {#acknowledgements}
- [Jeff](http://wovenmemories.net/), for proofreading Part III
- [Tomáš](https://www.analognowhere.com/), for providing artwork on homepage
- [Karl Pettersson](https://static-dust.klpn.se/), for pointing date errors about IX/386 and Xenix in Part III
## Changes {#changes}
- _2024-06-09_: Date fixes (IX/386 Xenix) in Part 3
- _2024-06-08_: First release of Part 3
- _2024-05-30_: Extract into self-contained website
- _2024-04-08_: Extract Unix History to dedicated section
- _2024-03-16_: First relase of Part 2
- _2024-03-09_: First relase of Part 1
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