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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world
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And it captured our hearts along the way. I bet few of us knew it existed in '92.
I had no clue how to operate a computer in '92. Pretty sure I had no clue what MSDOS was, much less what Linux was. Was a few years later that I actually got my first PC and started to learn stuff.