It took 40 years to get its own social network, for shame. I remember the first time I saw an X terminal in my first year at college. I didn't have a computer

It took 40 years to get its own social network, for shame. I remember the first time I saw an X terminal in my first year at college. I didn't have a computer of my own, and windows labs were overcrowded, so I figured I'd cut my teeth and learn this Unix thing a year earlier. It was SunOS with twm, and the defaults made the font size unreadably small. I went to the bookstore, bought some Unix beginner's guide (I made sure it had an xwindows chapter, since I mistakenly thought I was using an "xwindows OS.") I spent more time figuring out that environment than I did working on my assignments, but I had a great time. The advantage of working in a lab with older students is I could see what they had on their screen and ask them about it. Lovely memories. Hard to believe I've been an X user in one form or another for more than half of its existence. It already seemed ancient when I first started.