Similar feelings but I'm slightly older and started a bit earlier. I had my first Linux exposure in late 1992 or early 1993 with the SLS bootable floppy distri

Similar feelings but I'm slightly older and started a bit earlier. I had my first Linux exposure in late 1992 or early 1993 with the SLS bootable floppy distribution. I started putting it to use almost immediately to do some of my CS coursework from my bedroom instead of always going to the terminal rooms on campus. I think I started using Slackware later in 1993 when I was ready to go from floppy to HDD installation. I found a computer lab, accessible to undergraduates, where I could FTP the floppy images over the campus network and write them to floppy. It took multiple trips but was much faster than trying to do it via a dial-up SLIP connection.