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UNIX was created in 1969 by Ken Thompson, Brain Khernighan, and Dennis Ritchie, who at that time were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories.

Linux was created in 1991 by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds, just for fun, and is based around the designs of Unix as it had evolved from 1969 to around that year. Fun factoid, around 1991 a lot of Unix researchers were actually experimenting with microkernel designs, so Linus wasn't entirely following the bleeding edge Unix trends of the time when he created the Linux kernel.

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