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Fond memories of installing Slackware from floppies for me. Sure, USB dongles are better, and floppy disks corrupted if you looked at them funny, but inside of
by bitexploder 5y ago
Fond memories of installing Slackware from floppies for me. Sure, USB dongles are better, and floppy disks corrupted if you looked at them funny, but inside of those floppies was magic for 15 year old me :)
E: back when we had 28k and 56k dial up modems (think 2-6KB per second) the computer was more of its own universe. I learned Linux through info and man and internet resources for bigger concepts. O’Reilly books were great back then. I learned so much that is still with me today because it’s what I had available and it was still and expansive universe. How small and limiting it would feel by today’s standards.