Linus Torvalds posts a message to the Internet newsgroup comp.os.minix with the subject line "What would you like to see most in minix?" This is the first announcement that he is working on an operating system that will one day become Linux. [https://tinyurl.com/xnews-linux]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/how-linux-was-born-as-told-by-linus-torvalds-himself/