Godsdammit! Could you please stop this nonsense?!

The very first announcement of Linux (which wasn't named as such yet) was on august 25, 1991 on the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix. Here's the post by Linus himself:

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki


Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

There was no Linux before that (and arguably there was no Linux at that moment either, as it was meant to be a free version of minix, but this post is generally recognized as the "birth" of Linux).

It's a good thing Linux never became "big and professional like gnu", eh?

What this also learns us is that, like any self-respecting nerd, Linus was still tapping away behind his monitor at eleven at night (Helsinki is two hours ahead of GMT).