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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 120 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

In a cave with a box of scrap

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 138 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

The biggest tragedy of modern media is that they chose to cast Elon Musk as the real life Tony Stark instead of torvalds who created 2 pieces of truly revolutionary software (with the help of thousands of other engineers ofc)

[–] darkpanda 20 points 2 weeks ago

Also Subsurface, a scuba diving log program, but that one is not quite as well known.

https://subsurface-divelog.org/

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