System Administrator Appreciation Day is observed in last Friday in July to show appreciation for the work of sysadmins and other IT workers.
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July 30 marks the celebration of the System Administrator Appreciation Day this year. Also known as SysAdmin Day, this day originated to pay tribute to the service meted out by IT professionals.
A system administrator named Ted Kekatos conceived of this System Administrator Appreciation Day to acknowledge sysadmins’ contribution all over the world in the IT industry.
The first System Administrator Appreciation Day was celebrated on July 28, 2000. Kekatos was inspired to create the special day by a Hewlett-Packard magazine advertisement in which a system administrator is presented with flowers and fruit-baskets by grateful co-workers as thanks for installing new printers.
