Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life
In the early 90s, I started working with FreeBSD and NetBSD. Then I moved to early Linux before it was even a viable OS. I remember having to manually build my windowing system. KDE and Gnome were still over the horizon, I was using X Windows builds. I didn't even really have workable software. You ever try to use Emacs as a web browser and email client? Because I have. It was god awful.
But I was on the cusp of beauty. Free software, making computers accessible to everyone. Early Linux absolutely fucking sucked, don't let any neckbeard tell you different. It was the worst experience you could have. But I thought that if people like me fought that worst experience, and submitted patches, and wrote code, and made things better, then people without that time or experience could have something great.
Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life
I remember working on early robotics in the 90s that I thought were going to help disabled people have better access to everything. I wrote software to help kids learn about programming. I wrote software that helped communications protocols that I thought would bring isolated people into the world. Fuck I submitted Linux kernal core code in the goddamn 90s!
I was A BELIEVER. Like a full on fucking zealot. I was a priestess in the cult of Fully Automated Luxury Communism 25 years before that stupid ass book was even written. I wrote essays is print Linux magazines about cooperation changing the world. I built computer educational programs for underprivileged children. I wrote software languages. I built robotics programs. I started multiple tech companies. My twice dead name is on all kinds of shit from that age.
And if I could go back in time and burn my entire history to the ground I would do it in a hot minute because fuck all of that naive and childish bullshit. It was all a fucking scam.
