papamike writes:  

Years ago, as a Network Engineer in the Air Force, I learned the importance of Univac as I studied it. My masters thesis was on the inner working of the Univac 1050II. Later Sperry Univac, and still later Linux. My forte was hex and decimal programming. But as familiar things fade away, I decided it was time for a change. Ubuntu with KDE became my passion and I am still reliant on it to perform a myriad of software task daily.
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.. excerpt from http://www.ubuntu.com/project/open-source ..

Where did open source come from?

Originally coined in 1998, the term open source came out of the free software movement, a collaborative force going strong since the dawn of computing in the 1950s. This early community was responsible for the development of many of the first operating systems, software and, in 1969, the Internet itself. Read more at http://www.ubuntu.com/project/open-source