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On 14 October 1996, a physics student in Tübingen, Germany posted a message to three Usenet newsgroups.

That post was the start of what would become KDE, one of the world's most impactful free software communities...

Trailer for the KDE Documentary drops on Saturday 🍿.

Original source for the email: kde.org/announcements/announcement/

#FreeSoftware #History #Documentary #OpenSource #Linux

KDE Project Announced

New Project: Kool Desktop Environment (KDE) [14th October 1996 03:00] Programmers wanted! Motivation Unix popularity grows thanks to the free variants, mostly Linux. But still a consistant, nice looking free desktop-environment is missing.
KDE Project Announced
#Linux #opensource #freesoftware #history #Documentary
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Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

these days that email would just be too long and hyper active and nobody would bother reading it let alone interact with it.

It triggers that
"oh my god what an annoying kid go away!"

and it's too long for today's attention span.

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njsg

Wait, was this an email or a Usenet post?

Do you happen to know its Message-ID? I know Mastodon for some reason can't do news: links, but it would be interesting to see this in context too.

I'll see if I can track it down using XPAT at news.blueworldhosting.com. (Or, this being Mastodon, I'll find that somebody has already replied with the Message-ID but in a reply that hasn't reached my screen yet :-) )