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The reason I know this is because in 2004 I was squatting in an apartment with no TV and no internet. So each day after work I would go home and just read manpages for fun.

Ended up learning ipfw through the firewall manpage on FreeBSD, and using my skills to setup and manage an IPFW at work.

It's amazing how much you get done with no TV and no internet. Also played a lot of nethack.



I learned vim proper by reading :help on an eeepc while flying back and forth over the Atlantic alone one year.




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