For KDE's history, we begin at the beginning, a little before it's true inception in 1996, and take you up to the RC1 of Plasma 6 in late January of 2024.
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The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Iat_s/m/zv_D_2ctS8sJ
KDE ONE
https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/http://community.kde.org/KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)
K Desktop Environment first real beta release
https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0-beta1/
Beta 1 Screenshots
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129135932/http://www.kde.org/kscreenshots.html
KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998
https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0/
1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
https://linux-center.org/articles/9809/interview.html
KFM turned into Konqueror
https://web.archive.org/web/20080723193818/http://konqueror.kde.org/faq#WheredoesthenameiKonqueroricomefrom
Konqi
https://community.kde.org/Konqi
KDE 2.0
https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/2.0/
KDE 2.1
https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.php
In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released
https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.0/
2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6834
2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
https://behindkde.org/matthias-ettrich-1
KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy"
https://conference2004.kde.org/
2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
https://archive.fosdem.org/2005/2005/index/interviews/interviews_ettrich.html
April 8, 2005 Kubuntu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu#/media/File:Kubuntu.5.04.KDE.png
KDE 3.5
https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.5/
KDE Four Core Meeting
https://dot.kde.org/2006/06/26/kde-libs-hackers-meet-kde-four-core
KDE 4
https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.0/
Oxygen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Project
2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
https://tfir.io/matthias-ettrich-creator-of-kde/
KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit
https://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-its-subversion-repository
Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation"
https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.4.php
November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now
https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand
Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
KDE SC 4.5
https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/
October 2010, an official split from KOffice
https://lwn.net/Articles/419822/
Plasma Active
https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/
KDE Manifesto
https://manifesto.kde.org/index.html
December 2012, a redesigned Konqi
http://tysontan.deviantart.com/art/Konqi-ver-2-494267237
KDE release structure changed
https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves
KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series
https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.14.0/
Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5
https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/
2015 Wayland enters the room
https://dot.kde.org/2015/12/18/first-plasma-wayland-live-image
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