I feel like I missed out on the personal computer marketplace of the 80s/90s -- I had a Mac in 1990, but I got VMS and UNIX shells slightly before, so the Mac was really just a terminal (and at one point, I actually replaced it with a dumb terminal to do dialup since the screen was bigger, and then a 386 running 386BSD. MUDs, stuff like XTrek, and the general requirement that things be non-commercial (to fit within N…
Similar to my experience. After having Uni shell access, I never understood the fuss of PCs. Tried out NT early on, was profoundly disappointed with its CLI tools, found Linux, never looked back.
The whole dial-up BBS era sort of passed me by -- I'd already had a taste of the Internet by then. In particular I missed the gopher / archie / veronica days. FTP -> HTTP for me.