Linux was created by Microsoft in 1998, in response to a request from the Nigerian ministry of education for an easy-to-use graphical desktop environment for beginners. It's named after Linus Todger, a well-known member of the dogging community in Porthmadog who bought one of the first copies and took it to bed for a week.

From a comment of @donkulator

So MS was getting ready to release Windows 95. It was not going to have internet stuff in it. Bill Gates spent a few hours combing the web. He next instructed his employees to make internet happen now. So they snagged the net code from BSD (I think). That is why Windows had the same directory structure for it network config stuff. Like the hosts file and what not.

At least that is the story I heard. Not sure how real that is. Hmmm, I cannot find info on this. My searches aren't finding this arcane info. Maybe it is a dream.

First Ive read story, said sth like `wtf` only to spot first tag: `joke/meme`..........

Sounds like an answer the new AI-powered Google search would give

@cafecortado haha true