It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup.
I would, I downloaded Slackware through dialup, sometime late 1994.
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Random thought: how did beer refrigeration work pre-industrial revolution?
Cellars (and sometimes caves) were both popular and effective, even sometimes still used today.
It's fascinating how often this actually is a viable option.
One possible starting point could be the now classic essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar:
At today's gold prices, 800 US dollars is just one single small gold coin. A classic 1 oz Krugerrand coin is currently worth more than 2,000 US dollars.
I don't think it's ever happened to me that anyone told me that it was inconvenient for them that I didn't have iMessage, compared to pretty much weekly exclamations of "But why can't you just use WhatsApp like everyone else!?"
Traditional news ironically.
Rolf Dobelli wrote a good essay about that some years ago:
Why do you call it "your" physical device?
Maybe he lied and pretended to believe that space exists in order to pass?
A computer — no other item I own has changed the course of my life as much as owning my own computer has.
Seriously, Slackware at that time was wonderfully well planned and optimized, the stack of floppies needed for a fully usable system was remarkably small and downloadable.