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Tales Fernandes Costa's avatar

About the timeline:

1985 - yet another version of unix and gnu manifesto, git was not even a dream on young linus mind

1995 - java is launched

1998 - the year of imac. for stackoverflow try 2008

... time for breakfast

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Zac Bowling 🥑's avatar

Git wasn't invented in 1985, it was invented in 2005. In response to bitkeeper licensing nonsense and Linus thinking that subversion being awful. He explains the history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

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