We announced the FreeDOS Project on June 29, 1994. So that means
FreeDOS turned 27 years old today!

If you'd like a reminder about FreeDOS history, you can read today's
article on Opensource.com:
https://opensource.com/article/21/6/history-freedos

And as a reminder of how far we've come, here's a look back on what
else happened in 1994:


SUSE Linux was released in March 1994.

MS-DOS 6.22 was released in April 1994.

Iomega released its Zip disk drive and diskettes in 1994.

Netscape (Mosaic Communications Corporation) was founded by Marc
Andreessen and James H. Clark on April 4, 1994. Netscape version 1 was
released on December 15, 1994.

HÃ¥kon Wium Lie came up with a concept for CSS in 1994.

Rasmus Lerdorf introduced PHP in 1994.

Geek Squad was founded on June 16, 1994.

The PowerPC was first implemented in the Apple Power Mac in 1994.

Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released on September 21, 1994.

Intel announced IA-64 in October 1994.

The W3C organization was founded by Tim Berners-Lee on October 1,
1994. The W3C organization held its first meeting on December 14,
1994.

Perl 5.000 was released on October 17, 1994.

NetBSD 1.0 was released on October 26, 1994.

Amazon.com domain was registered on November 1, 1994.

Sony released the original PlayStation on December 3, 1994.

T-Mobile was founded in 1994.

The last edition of the Compute! computer magazine was released in 1994.

Red Hat Linux company founded and the first Red Hat Linux distro was
released in 1994.


*from https://www.computerhope.com/history/1994.htm


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