Amaya Toman In today's part of our series on important events in the field of technology, we will recall two moments that are in some way connected with software. The first of them will be the creation of the GNU project, the second - somewhat more recent - event will be the introduction of the Mac OS X operating system.
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The GNU Project (1984)
On January 5, 1984, work on the GNU project began in full. This project was primarily driven by Richard Stallman, who quit his job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop it. Stallman's goal was to create a completely free operating system that users could use, distribute, modify, and publish their own modified versions without any restrictions—these ideas were outlined in the GNU Manifesto the following April. Stallman is also the author of the software's name - a recursive acronym for the phrase "GNU's Not Unix".
Introducing Mac OS X (2000)
Apple introduced its Mac OS X desktop operating system on January 5, 2000. Steve Jobs introduced it to an audience of more than four thousand people on stage at the Macworld Expo conference. Distribution of the developer version of this operating system began at the end of January, followed by the start of sales for all users in the summer. The new version of the operating system brought, for example, the familiar Aqua user interface, a Dock with application icons, a completely new Finder for managing files and much more. As part of the presentation of its new operating system, Apple also stated that more than a hundred developer companies, including Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft, have pledged full support for this new feature.
