Initial commit: GNU Project announced. The idea that software should be free -- not as in price, but as in freedom -- takes root in a Usenet post. A manifesto disguised as a technical announcement.

feat: add kernel -- "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu." A Finnish student posts to comp.os.minix. The understatement of the century writes itself into the scrollback of history.

docs: publish "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" -- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. The essay that convinced Netscape to open their source. A cathedral crumbles; a bazaar erupts.

refactor: Netscape source code released as Mozilla. Six million lines of code, freed. The browser wars produce their first open-source casualty -- and their first open-source phoenix.

feat: launch social coding platform -- pull requests become the lingua franca of collaboration. Fork is no longer a threat; it is an invitation. The graph goes exponential.

chore: 420 million repositories and counting. Open source is no longer a movement -- it is the substrate. Every startup, every government, every phone in every pocket runs on code that someone chose to share.