Wow, I had forgotten about how disappointed I was when I found out about winmodems. That tempered my fascination with Linux fairly quickly at the time.
Most of my time in E16 was spent sitting patient and inert, waiting for someone to walk by my desk so I could impress them with the awesome window flipping and water animations. Well, that and posting endless screenshots of my setup to various forums. Whenever I'm feeling down I pour myself a drink and browse my "screenshots_2002" folder :)
> Remember discovering what a winmodem was...
I still have my first non-winmodem installed in my machine, though I haven't had an active phone line in my apartment for years... ahhh, nostalgia!
Remember BlueSteel? I'm using it right now. Still use the latest Enlightenment DR16 on all my Linux and Solaris boxes. It does everything I need a window manager to do.
Remember installing linux for the first time to try it out?
Remember discovering what a winmodem was…