Amaya Toman In today's installment of our series on historical events in the field of technology, we will focus on Apple again - this time in connection with the departure of Steve Jobs in 1985. But we will also talk about the release of the first version of the Linux kernel or the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account.
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Steve Jobs leaves Apple (1985)
Steve Jobs resigned from Apple on September 17, 1985. At that time, he worked here mainly as the chairman of the board, and John Sculley worked in the management of the company at that time. This was once brought to the company by Jobs himself - Sculley originally worked for the Pepsi-Cola company, and with his "recruitment" to Apple, there is a legendary story about Jobs' suggestive question whether Sculley "wants to sell sweetened water until the end of his life, or whether he would rather to change the world with Jobs". Jobs returned to the company in 1996, returning to its management (initially as interim director) in the fall of 1997.
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The Linux Kernel (1991)
On September 17, 1991, the first version of the Linux kernel, Linux kernel 0.01, was placed on one of the Finnish FTP servers in Helsinki. The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, originally wanted his operating system to be called FreaX (when the letter "x" was supposed to refer to Unix), but the server operator Ari Lemmke did not like this name and called the directory with the relevant files Linux.
Sarah Palin's Email Hack (2008)
In mid-September 2008, Sarah Palin's email account was hacked during the US presidential campaign. The perpetrator was hacker David Kernell, who gained access to her Yahoo e-mail in a ridiculously simple way - he used the forgotten password recovery process and successfully answered the verification questions with the help of easy-to-find data. Kernell then posted several messages from the email account on the discussion platform 4chan. David Kernell, then a XNUMX-year-old college student, was the son of Democrat Mike Kernell.
