Moving to Linux from Dos/Windows 3.1 in the 90's. (An OS that's both free and comes with development tools? I don't have to shell out a hundred dollars for Bo

Moving to Linux from Dos/Windows 3.1 in the 90's. (An OS that's both free and comes with development tools? I don't have to shell out a hundred dollars for Borland Turbo C++? What an exciting time to be alive.) The Internet / world wide web. Also in the late 90's I had a summer job at HP and was able to use their cad tools (ME-30 and Solid Designer) which put Autocad, which I was familiar with, to shame. Unfortunately, they were very expensive programs that ran on very expensive computers. Switching to ML-style functional programming (Ocaml and later Haskell) over C and Perl. Switching to Wikipedia over the top Google results for a search query as a source of basic information. (These quickly converged to be the same thing.)