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I've always taken this the same as "Linus wrote Linux over a few weeks as a hobby during university". Yeah, sure, the kernel was functional. But just about eve

I've always taken this the same as "Linus wrote Linux over a few weeks as a hobby during university". Yeah, sure, the kernel was functional. But just about everything we think of as Linux came later from thousands of contributors.

wmf 3y ago
In particular, the DOM came years later. Early JS just had document.write() which was not very powerful by today's standards.