I see parallels between the rise of Linux and the rise of Voluntaryism.
ON AUGUST 25, 1991, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced a new project. “I’m doing a (free) operating system,” he wrote on an Internet messaging system, insisting this would just be a hobby.
But it became something bigger. Much bigger. Today, that open source operating system—Linux—is one of the most important pieces of computer software in the world. Chances are, you use it every day.
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/linux-took-web-now-taking-world/
Back in the 90s I played around with Linux in my spare time because it was not taken seriously at all by businesses for years. When I would bring up Linux at work as a solution for some of our projects, my boss literally laughed and said, "Linux is amateur hour and it will never beat Microsoft!" That same manager allowed me to proof-of-concept our first Linux project about three years later. Sun Microsystems and Solaris got mostly pushed out of our datacenters and Linux took its place.The rest, as they say, is history :) History that is still being written, of course, but Linux rules the internet and business today even if its not penetrated as far into the desktop space.
GNU, Apache, OpenSource, CopyLeft instead of copyright have muscled the 100% closed, proprietary market out of the way and given individuals unprecedented power never before seen in the world. It is proof that centralized controllers and gatekeepers are losing and their days are coming to an end. People want to be free!
The same revolution is taking place in the realm of currency and money and governance and every other facet of society right now. The understanding that information should flow freely AND that all relationships between people should be voluntary is breaking out all over! It has taken Linux 25 years to get this far and I am content that voluntaryism's victory is also on the horizon though it is probably as difficult to envision for some people now as it was for my manager to envision in 1998 what Linux would become.