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So technically I think I had a Linux box at 0.99pl13 and a 28.8k modem in '93 with which I dialed into a provider in Cologne, Germany, but whose Internet connection first went to the US. Pings to the university of Cologne were like 3s. twitter.com/markrendle/sta…
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Those days! I bought a PC without OS but with a mouse and the guy in the computer shop was like WTF. Then I installed Linux from 30 3.5" disks. The computer hat 8 MEGAbytes of RAM. I would start X if I felt adventurous to let ghostscript plot the tiger head.