The early days of Linux

I saved this article to read on a lazy Sunday afternoon, and indeed what a well written story. I got involved much later (being from a place where computers were rare and terribly expensive that early), and I remember fighting with Slackware <some version> and a Linux 1.2 kernel and X until, much later, I started understanding that my Trident card was not actually supported beyond VGA mode at that time. If I concentrate, I probably could remember the card number, that's how much I was fighting with all these new and wonderful things.

And yes, the Linux Documentation Project was awesome. Like another commenter, I also built small ISPs based on nothing more than one or two Linux machines, lots of serial port expanders, and reading many, many man pages.

Thank you for the trip down the memory lane, much appreciated!