early 90s my dad brought home a 486 I think it was. I don't know how but I got my hands on a copy of Redhat Linux on floppy and tried (and tried, and tried) to

early 90s my dad brought home a 486 I think it was. I don't know how but I got my hands on a copy of Redhat Linux on floppy and tried (and tried, and tried) to install it. This is back when they literally made you build the entire kernel from source code. I was running gcc with all these flags had no clue what I was doing. Finally got it installed, I remember the day when I finally built X windows it was so amazing! I started networking PC's together in a LAN in my parents house. We got a CD-ROM drive a few years later with Microsoft Encarta I remember it was like having the internet! Fast forward to BBS's. AOL, Prolog, I spent 10-15 years out of the industry completely and finally got back into "tech" and building websites, installing VOIP systems (figuring that out), implementing backup systems for doctors, making intranets for small businesses, everything in between. Now I run a development house. Can't say the work I do is ground breaking, I tell people what I do is like the janitorial work of the internet: we do the work small businesses either don't want to do or don't know how to do. Not rich by any means but work for myself and make my own hours.