Software1 hOctober 29, 2026, 00:00

Emacs text editor turns 50

Emacs first ran on video terminals at the MIT AI Lab in 1976 and remains widely used today. Its concepts helped spawn the free software movement and GNU/Linux, and Apple even shipped it with Mac OS X.

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Emacs first ran in 1976 at the MIT AI Lab
It was rewritten for many OSes and shipped by Apple with Mac OS X
The community around Emacs helped launch free software and GNU/Linux

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Emacs text editor turns 50

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