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Linus was first exposed to coding at the age 11 with a Commodore VIC-20.
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Graduated with a master's degree in Computer Science.
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After graduating, Linus served his country due to the mandatory service enlistment requirement for Finland.
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Linus was exposed to UNIX for the first time when he went back to University for the second time.
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Linus bought an IBM PC and began to start the initial stages of Linux.
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In late 1991, the first working prototype of Linux was released to the public.
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Linus accepts a job at Transmeta in California and relocates.
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Linus along with 86open create the standard binary format for Linux and Unix
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Linus was offered stock of the companies he helped create, valued at $20 million.
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Linus was awarded by MIT Technology Review as one of the world's top 100 innovators under the age of 35.
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Linus accepted a job at Open Source Developments, which is now known as the Linux Foundation.
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Linus was inducted into the Hall of Fellows.
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Linus developed a scuba and free diving app that allowed divers to keep track of diving data. It was coded to work on virtually any diving computer.
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Linus is responsible for 2% of the total code in Linux, which is a huge contribution among the thousands that have helped.
