2026-11-07
Product Rank #47 The Linux Kernel (86 OVR): How a 21-Year-Old's Bedroom Hobby Swallowed 96% of the World's Servers and Every Android Phone
Ranked #47 in the 100 Products That Changed the World: The Linux Kernel (1991, 86 OVR). Linus Torvalds posted that it was 'just a hobby, won't be big and professional.' Three decades later, cloud computing, Android, supercomputers, and AI clusters all run on it.
