# Linus Torvalds Recognizes Linux's 'True' 30th Anniversary Date **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** operating-system, technology\ **Created:** [September 26, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/linus-torvalds-recognizes-linuxs-true-30th-anniversary-date/202494 "2021-09-26T11:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheStrength](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thestrength/32/46753_2.png) [@TheStrength](https://onehack.st/u/TheStrength)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/linus-torvalds-recognizes-linuxs-true-30th-anniversary-date/202494/1 "2021-09-26T11:34:46Z")
[![](https://i0.wp.com/9to5linux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/linux30.jpg) ](https://i0.wp.com/9to5linux.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/linux30.jpg) While it’s been argued that Linux [has four different "birthdays,](https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-linuxs-30th-birthday/)" last Friday saw the 30th anniversary of Linux’s very, very first release — version 0.01. That special first release “was never publicly announced, and I only emailed a handful of people in private about the upload,” Torvalds remembered [on the Linux kernel mailing list](http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2109.2/03485.html). He no longer has copies of those announcement emails, “so there’s no real record of that. The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I suspect.”_“Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates, not the actual creation of the tar-file,” Torvalds wrote, “but it does seem to have happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was technically a couple of hours ago.”_ So when the exact moment arrived for its 30th anniversary, Torvalds couldn’t resist sharing the moment on the Linux kernel mailing list. _“Just thought I’d mention it, since while unannounced, in many ways this is the true 30th anniversary date of the actual code.”_