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I remember: how much it sucked none of the radio stations around me played the music I liked. how I wanted to learn advanced math topics, foreign languages, e

I remember: how much it sucked none of the radio stations around me played the music I liked. how I wanted to learn advanced math topics, foreign languages, etc, but there was no way for me to learn it. How amazed I was when our school library got those encyclopedia disks and we can look up a lot of things how I use to dial home with 2 rings to signal my mom to pick me up at school. Telephone company eventually gave us a huge bill. when I wanted to experiment with linux and other various tech, but getting ahold of hardware to experiment with was too expensive for me.

cogman10 6y ago
Right there with you. My first linux machine was an old Pentium 2 Gateway box :D. I also grew up in idaho mountains so you can imagine how bad radio stations were. Nothing but talk radio and one "hits" station. Napster was a small lifeline into the rest of the world, though for the longest time we were 5 to 10 years behind the rest of the world when it came to things like pop music. It was bizarre!