Can’t believe Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or AI.

→ He didn't have a co-founder.

→ No VC funding.

→ No office.

→ No team.

→ Just a personal project

He posted this announcement on Usenet in 1991:

“I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”

34 years later, it runs 96% of the world's servers, all Android smartphones, the International Space Station, most of the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), every major stock exchange, and basically is the internet’s backbone.

The most important software in history started as someone's side project.

Living legend.