• loutr@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    What’s this “Google” thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.

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        In France ADSL was still a couple years away, so it was actually cheaper to buy the book and the CD instead of downloading the ISO and looking up documentation online.

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          I had hand-scribbled instructions from said fat kid’s older brother. It was in a sticker-bombed binder. And they weren’t, like, cool stickers. It was just like promo shit for hardware and industrial equipment manufacturers.