It's 35 years since Linus Torvalds first revealed Linux, calling it 'just a hobby' — how wrong he was

Thirty-five years ago, a 21-year-old Linus Torvalds posted a casual message online describing Linux as "just a hobby" that wouldn't amount to much. That prediction proved spectacularly wrong. Linux grew from 10,000 lines of code to over 40 million, now powering all 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers, most cloud infrastructure, and countless embedded devices, with over 6,000 active contributors today.