Yup, I’m definitely old enough to remember that stuff. Major SciFi fan here. Lifelong.
I started playing with Linux on a 5 1/4” floppy and a 386SX back in about ‘92. DL’d it off some newsgroup or BBS. (remember those? {grin}) I ran a computer sales and repair shop then, so I got a “used” SX to try this newfangled operating system on. Couldn’t spare a REAL 386 to play with.
Was fun hearing (reading online) about Linus doing his development of this new Minix experiment. ‘Course that was over 300 baud modem dialups for a while until we got the 4800 and then the 9600 baud ones. Wow! Such blazing speed. Wish I could remember how long it took me to download the linux files onto that floppy disk.
Such fun times.
Lol... I used to run Trade Wars on a BBS... I can’t even remember the name of my own BBS anymore >.<
Time does that to you :/