On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13 ...

Their goal was to write a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system (OS) and in August 1969, a programmer at AT&T Bell Laboratories started work on the first ever version of Unix.

Any Jurassic Park fan will remember how teenage hacker Lex saved the day with her knowledge of Unix operating systems, delving into the dinosaur-overrun theme park’s computer files in order to ...