Working on a discarded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-7 minicomputer, Thompson wrote the first version of UNIX in 1969. The goal was simple: create a comfortable, elegant environment for researchers to write programs and share files.

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If you are reading this on a phone, a laptop, or even a smart fridge, you are interacting with the ghost of a 1969 project that started in an attic at Bell Labs. Brian Kernighan’s book, Unix: A History and a Memoir

I sat in the amber glow of my terminal, the radiator clanking in the corner of my dusty server room. I typed the command: patch < memoir.patch

: Unix didn't start with a corporate mandate. It began because Ken Thompson wanted to play a space travel game on a discarded PDP-7 machine. The "K" in AWK