Timeline Project By SerenaH 1953 Richard Stallman Born nd Raised in New York, New York 1971 Worked at MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 1971 Begins College at Harvard University 1974 Graduated Harvard 1975 Worked as a Research assistant at MIT 1983 Creates a new version of Emacs text editor called GNU Emacs 1983 Stallman publicly declares all codes and softwares should be free 1983 Began to work on GNU operating systems 1985 Publishes the GNU Manifesto 1985 Stallman establishes non-profit organization Free Software Foundation 1989 Created GNU GPL 1994 GNU Linux operating system 1999 The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource 2020 GNU development began supporting newer C and C++ 2020 Richard Stallman resigns as president of the Free Software Foundation