Python Conception & First Public Release
Guido van Rossum begins implementing Python during Christmas 1989. By February 1991, the first public version, Python 0.9.0, is announced on Usenet's alt.sources newsgroup.
Significance
This marked the birth of Python as a publicly available language, inviting early adopters and feedback that would shape its future.
Key facts
- Date
- 1991-02-20
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands