# Software-Related Forum Posts Through the Years (and the 10th Anniversary of the Bitcoin Whitepaper)

> 1/ There have been many great software-related forum posts over the years. Some favorites… 2/ Tim Berners Lee, proposing the World Wide Web in 1991. “The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone.” https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/...

- URL: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/forum-posts-software-innovation-bitcoin-whitepaper-10th-anniversary
- Authors: [Chris Dixon](https://a16zcrypto.com/team/chris-dixon)
- Published: 2018-10-31
- Updated: 2023-10-09
- Focus areas: tech trends
- Tags: history

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1/ There have been many great software-related forum posts over the years. Some favorites…

2/ Tim Berners Lee, proposing the World Wide Web in 1991. “The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone.”  
[https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJGhZyooXzkJ](https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJGhZyooXzkJ)

3/ Linus Torvalds proposing Linux, also in 1991. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”  
[http://web.archive.org/web/20100104211620/http://www.linux.org/people/linus\_post.html](http://web.archive.org/web/20100104211620/http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html)

4/ Marc Andreessen proposing images for web browsers, in 1993. “I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG”  
[http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html](http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html)

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1057826378484084736

5/ And, of course, Satoshi proposing Bitcoin, 10 years ago today. “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without the burdens of going through a financial institution“  
[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/)

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1057826854420144129

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