My early teens around when I first got a copy of GNU/Linux. Someone in a local IRC channel sold me a CD with Slackware 6 for a couple of bucks. That launched me

My early teens around when I first got a copy of GNU/Linux. Someone in a local IRC channel sold me a CD with Slackware 6 for a couple of bucks. That launched me into an intensive period of learning. In these youthful days, when I didn't have to earn a living and school ended at 3 PM, learning stuff about hacking computers was pure in some sense, maybe because it was purely self-directed out of curiosity.