Back in the early 2000s, I used to have to buy Linux distros on CD from eBay.

People burned ISOs onto CDs and sold them to those of us who only had dial-up Internet, which made downloading Linux on our own take an ungodly amount of time.

Once or twice I bought a distro from an office store. It came in a nice cardboard package with a printed user guide.

It was so exciting to install Mandrake Linux and Red Hat back then.

I loved StarOffice.

Those were the days. My first taste of freedom from Microsoft, which was known at the time for its dreaded "blue screen of death."