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Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969 in Finland
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Linus purchased his first computer, which was the Sinclair QL.
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Linus was admitted to the University where he studied computer science.
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Linus takes his first C programming class. Taking this class allowed him to create the language for the Linux operating system.
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Linus announced the first version of the Linux, version .02.
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A more or less stable version of Linux is released
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Linus meets his wife Tove Nee Monni
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version 2.0 of the Linux Kernal was created, a significant improvement of the other versions of the Linux.
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Linus wins the lifetime achievement award
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Linus received the world technology award from the world technology network
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Linus starts working for the Open source development labs
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Linus moved with his family to portland, Oregon
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Linus is indicuted into the internet hall of fame
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the institute of electrical and electronics engineers named Torvalds as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE computer society's computer pioneer award
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Today Linus owns the Linux trademark and Linux has more than 18 million lines of source code.