• Stallman's announcement of the GNU Project
  • Bell Labs on Unix history
  • The original CACM unix article
  • 7th Edition Manual Pages
  • Opengroup's single unix spec
  • Solaris 2.4 manual pages
  • Peter Salus's book, "A Quarter Century of Unix" is supposed to be really good.
  • Message from Linus about the development of Linux
  • Linux man pages
  • linux' birthday
  • Performance Computing: The Top UNIX Moments of the Century (1900's)
  • Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix
    • http://perso.wanadoo.fr/levenez/unix/
  • Wanadoo: Includes a Visual Map of Unix History - IMO this overemphasizes the *BSD's, and underemphasizes the many Linux variants by treating them as a single thing
  • The Case of the Linux Kernel
  • The Story Behind Tux the Penguin
  • annotated kernel summit photo, 2001
  • The first emoticons - not really unix, I think. I'm surprised microsoft didn't try to claim this as their invention.
  • The cookie program (multics, really)
  • The first picture ever to be put on the web