Every Linux geek remembers their first time - the feeling is not unlike that "other" first time (indeed, I lost my Linux virginity a decade before my "other" first time occurred).

Back in the days of HTTP1.0 and Netscape 4.76,
before WEB 2.0 was even conceptualized, in the
grand year of 1997, yours truly grabbed a free
copy of Redhat Mandrake 5.0 (I believe), which
came with the newly developed 2.0 kernel and all sorts of goodies.

I was reading either PC World or some other piece
of computing literature when I saw something that really caught my eye as a budding Internet (yeah,
not just the WWW, EVERYTHING) geek, game geek, game developer, game modder and first-order code geek; Linux.

Something about a free OS that I could install on my own computer that was based on UNIX tickled
the neurons in my brain.
I was forever hooked on Open Source software and the raw, feral command-line driven experience that was Linux.

I believe I wiped my hard disk and tried to dual-boot it (successfully, I might add) after installing Windows 98SE (for games, primarily).
I spent hours trying to figure out which packages I wanted to cram onto my (then huge) 1 GB hard disk.
Eventually, it was installed and I spent hours programming, running programs and bash scripts in more or less the same way as the Forefathers had done in the Age of Bell Labs.

I was 17 then; 12 years later I still love Linux, and have a solid Slackware distro installed and am planning on installing a secondary hard disk
to make it a Linux-only install, as opposed to dual-booting it.

Sometimes, I wish I could relive those days...
Ahh well.

=- Gravitron -=

Actually he/she spelled those words you listed correctly, it's just that he/she misspelled narrow, lets, agreed, ? college, actually, focused, assure, grammar, sociology, being, could and cynical. Oh, and you misspelled misspelled. 8^)>