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  • It wasn’t too early, maybe 1997.

    I was like 12 or so and I had just installed Linux.

    I figured out, from the book I was working with, how to get my windows partition to automaticallyount at boot. Awesome!

    I had not been able to figure out how to start “x” though.

    So I rebooted into Windows, for on EFnet #linux, and asked around.

    Got a command, wrote it down on a slip of paper, and rebooted into Linux.

    I should mention, I also hadn’t figured out about privileges, or at least why you wouldn’t want to run around as root.

    Anyway, I started typing in the command that I wrote down: rm -rf /.

    I don’t have to tell you all, that is not the correct command. The correct command was startx.

    After I figured it was taking way too long, I decided to look up what the command does, and then immediately shut down the system.

    It was far too late.