Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
Nintendo Switch Online launched in 2018 with 20 licensed NES games, suspend points, online play, and a subscription-dependent access model.
Nintendo's 2024 case against Yuzu ended in a $2.4 million judgment and permanent injunction, without a contested trial on broader emulation law.
Announced by maintainer Chet Ramey on February 20, 2009, Bash 4.0 added key-value associative arrays and other features scripters had requested for years.
Released as beta version .99 on June 8, 1989, Bash was built for the GNU Project as a free replacement for the Bourne shell and other proprietary Unix shells.
Distributed starting with 2BSD in 1979, Bill Joy's C shell introduced command history and aliases — features nearly every shell released since has copied.
Released February 13, 2005 by Swedish developer Axel Liljencrantz, Fish chose sensible-by-default behavior and built-in syntax highlighting over POSIX compatibility.
Catalina made zsh a mainstream interactive default; this account separates that ecosystem effect from macOS fleet migration and script compatibility.
Born August 28, 2009 to get his own team using Zsh, Oh My Zsh grew into the most widely used Zsh configuration framework in daily use today.
Ubuntu 6.10 switched its default /bin/sh from Bash to the stricter Dash in October 2006 for faster boot times, surfacing years of non-portable scripts.
Posted to Usenet by a Princeton student in 1990, Zsh combined the strongest interactive features of several existing shells, decades before becoming macOS's default.