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by aaron695 2133 days ago
1991

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html

Not sure if it was joking about being from computerworld?

It's not in this edition -

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC

Conspiracy -- Linus started Linux as an April fools joke from this April fools joke.

"This has been brewing since april 1991"

https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds...