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No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, But Ken Thompson might be the biggest geek who ever lived. 🫡
And almost nobody knows his name.
At 28, he created Unix.
> The OS that inspired every modern operating system on the planet.
At 66, the age when most engineers retire, he co-created Go.
> A language millions of developers love, and used to build most of modern Devops tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
But that is still not the full story.
- Dennis Ritchie built on Thompson’s B to create C.
- Linus built Linux inspired by Thompson’s Unix.
- He co-invented UTF-8, the encoding behind every website you visit.
- He built grep, a tool developers still use daily in 2024.
The internet you are scrolling right now exists because of him. And he did everything without Claude, cursor, ChatGPT.
Ken Thompson. Remember the name.

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