[cle]

linux?

[tdb7893]

was it actually billed as that when it was created?

[icebraining]

Yes, quite literally:

  This is a program for hackers by a hacker.

-- Linus, on the comp.os.minix newsgroup, in 1991

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/4995SivO...