daily knowledge: linus torvalds first announced linux on the comp.os.minix usenet group on august 25th, 1991. since minux was another unix-like operating system (this one targeted towards students), he asked the community what they liked and disliked about it, since he was working on his own free operating system as a hobby.
the original message can be read here: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/SwRavCzVE7gJ 
I love this announcement so much because the ambitions are adorably small. It says a lot about the modern web, both good and bad, that it's pretty much all built on top of little fun toy projects that will never be "big and professional".
not big and professional like gnu