19 June 1984. Bob Scheifler announces the first release of the X Window System: "I stole a fair amount of code from W ... and called it X." Forty-two years later, I'm still running X11 daily on Slackware. Happy Birthday, X. Source: https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml #X11 #Unix #Linux #Slackware #XLibre