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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CD? Windows 98 first edition was released on floppies. And Linux was not some simple thing. Red hat hadn’t even created yum and Debian hadn’t even created apt.

The late 90’s was a chore of library visits and 14.4k baud XModem transfer interruptions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds painful without a packet manager...Ouch!