From the 2004 album *Un* ... #chumbawamba Two revolutionary inventions from Finland, at both ends of the evolutionary scale: the molotov cocktail and the Linux computer operating system. The molotov cocktail was first used by the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, but it found a name in the ad-hoc attacks against the Soviet occupation of Finland in 1939. Empty vodka bottle, petrol, rag: three steps to burn out an invading tank. The home-made bomb's namesake was Mikhailovich Molotov, the Finnish politician who engineered the 'friendly' Soviet invasion. So it's the Molotov cocktail because it's aimed at Molotov... Zoom zoom zoom to 1990, and young Linus Torvalds is half way through his computer studies in a Helsinki classroom. Bill Gates is about to take over the world (bar the odd pie in the face). Linus and a few mates bury themselves in downstairs rooms, drink vodka, and invent revolutionary computer code which will be called Linux - free operating software. Linus posts a message to the world: *"Want to get rich quick by the end of the century by taking money from hordes of venture capitalists and clueless Wall Street suits? Need to get even with Bill Gates but don't know what to do except throw cream pies at him? Then this post might just be for you :-)"* They called it Rebel code. It must be the cold weather. Or the vodka.
12 years назад
7leaf13
magic voice like fresh air
13 years назад
Jarvisx51
Forever undertated classic music. Lets hope we can all be hipsters for a while in the sense of this one band. Popularity would ruin it.