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I read about MKLinux online at 14. I asked my mother to take me to Barnes and Nobles to see if I could find a book on Linux, as per the webpage that introduced me. No books on Linux in my Midwestern town at that time. I didn’t know what to do when it booted my Mac to a CLI, so I erased it.

I didn’t really get to a command line again until Mac OS X some years later.

I’m so jealous of today’s budding computer nerds. The world is their oyster. Info about how to use new things is very accessible. Damn kids /s.

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Also jealous of todays little nerd seedlings...but I feel like we older nerds still have an understanding that can only be obtained by being there from the beginning (not the real beginning, but I was born in 73, got my first computer in 4th grade) and seeing the layers of technology begin to stack up over the years....if that makes sense..

It was even worse in Indonesia. Once I realize how far behind we were in general computer news & information, I literally mailed USD$ 100 to Ziff-Davis' office

That's how I got my monthly PC Magazine subscription (this was when they were the best magazine about PC)

Also good technical books were practically non-existent

I got my first Assembly and Norton's book from a bookstore specializing in bootleg copies

Only years later I began to be able to buy good books

Things are so much better now, thankfully

Ziff-Davis PC Magazine. The memories. Thanks for sharing.

...but there's so much to do, see, and read that they mostly will not access it. At least, that's my impression.

Yeah, it's too much to do in one human lifetime, but we still discover lots of new stuff every day and thanks to SE, online docs and wikis of varying quality, it's quite easy to get things to run in no time, even if you've never heard of them before.

I recently got my 12 year old cousin a RPi 400. I’m so incredibly jealous of him now!

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