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[[!meta title="Celebrating 10 years of Tails!"]]
[[!meta date="Mon, 15 Dec 2019 20:00:00 +0000"]]
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In 2019, we are especially proud of celebrating with you the 10 years of Tails.
The first release of Tails, back then *amnesia*, was announced in 2009. Since then we released 98 versions of Tails, which were used more than 40 million times.
Here are some stories about how it all started and some vintage screenshots. But first of all, the birthday cake!
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2009&ndash;2010: amnesia, T(A)ILS, and their ancestors
Today, Tails is based on Debian, Tor, and GNOME. We inherit from their work and try to contribute back in order to create a healthy ecosystem of reliable, secure, and usable tools.
When we started the *amnesia* project back in 2009, other projects before us paved the way to what is Tails today:
[Knoppix](http://www.knoppix.org/), born in 2000 and still alive today, was the first popular live Linux distribution. Back then, it was a groundbreaking achievement to be able to start and use Linux without going through lengthy, very complex, and uncertain Linux install "parties". Knoppix was primarily designed for convenience and diagnosis.
[ELE](https://web.archive.org/web/20050422130010/http://www.northernsecurity.net:80/download/ele/), born in 2005 and based on Damn Small Linux, [Anonym.OS](https://web.archive.org/web/20060212030338/http://theory.kaos.to:80/projects.html), born in 2006 and based on OpenBSD, and [Incognito](https://web.archive.org/web/20071213084719/http://www.browseanonymouslyanywhere.com/incognito/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=41), born in 2007 and based on Gentoo, pushed the concept of live operating systems a bit further by focusing on security, online anonymity, and the use of Tor.
*Incognito*
was the first live operating system to include a full set of
applications preconfigured to go through Tor (browser, email
client, IRC client, etc.), offer a persistent *Home*
directory, and even allow hosting onion services.
*Incognito* was also the first live operating system to receive an
[official recognition from the Tor
Project](https://blog.torproject.org/incognito-and-tor-project-sign-licensing-agreement).
The original author of *Incognito*, *Pat Double*, resigned in 2007 and *anonym*, who
still works for Tails today, took over the maintenance.
On August 16 2009, *intrigeri* announced the first release of *amnesia* on the [*tor-talk* mailing list](https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2009-August/002667.html).
In March 2010, *Incognito* was declared dead and *amnesia* its "[spiritual successor](https://web.archive.org/web/20100728224716/http://www.anonymityanywhere.com:80/incognito)". Some weeks later, *amnesia* would be renamed *T(A)ILS*, *The Amnesic Incognito Live System*, to act the fusion between *amnesia* and *Incognito*.

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