• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Same here, I got hired as a “webmaster” at a place that had been using some Yahoo web services for their website and they had dialup Internet accounts for everybody in the office. For the same money I got them access to a fractional T1 and set up a server on an old 486 gathering dust in the back room. We served up their webpages from in-house. They thought I was a god, I was just a big fat resume-padded liar who stayed up reading Usenet all night lol. Those were the days and I’ll never forget that distro:

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Me too! Slackware 1.0 installed by floppy disk … so much faff the first time to get X to load, and then the only thing I could do with it was to run xeyes.

      Emacs was 5 floppies, the C compiler was about 11.