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1st January 1970 is nowadays set as the start of the **Unix epoch**. It is the date from which [Unix time](unix_time.md) is counted. During this time the **[Unix](unix.md) [operating system](os.md), one of the most influential operating systems** was being developed at [Bell Labs](bell_labs.md), mainly by [Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md) and [Dennis Ritchie](dennis_ritchie.md). Along the way they developed the famous [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md) and also the **[C programming language](c.md)**, perhaps the most influential programming language in history. Unix and C would shape the technology far into the future, a whole family of operating systems called Unix-like would be developed and regarded as the best operating systems thanks to their minimalist design.
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By 1977 ARPANET had about 60 nodes.
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In 1983 **[Richard Stallman](rms.md) announced his [GNU](gnu.md) project and invented [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md)**, a kind of software that is freely shared and developed by the people so as to respect the users' freedom. This kind of ethical software stands opposed to the [proprietary](proprietary.md) corporate software, it would lead to creation of some of the most important software and to a whole revolution in software development and its licensing, it would spark the creation of other movements striving for keeping ethics in the information age.
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August 12 1981 would see the released of **[IBM PC](ibm_pc.md)**, a person computer based on open, modular architecture that would immediately be very successful and would become the [de-facto standard](de_facto_standard.md) of personal computers. IBM PC was the first of the kind of desktop computers we have today. It had 4.77 MHz [Intel 8088](intel.md) CPU, 16 kB of [RAM](ram.md) and used 5.25" [floppy disks](floppy.md).
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