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@sblaydes @Dianora @jess Hey! I remember #freebsdhelp. I just don't remember the username I was using at the time. But it was a great channel.

@Dianora @housepanther @jess We had started #freebsdhelp back in '99 I believe.

Course like all of the internet, we dropped out and it evolved in a different direction.

If you had updated the #BIOS, how did you do that? Did you need to restore the #EFI configuration somehow?

@EsperantoStar Helped start an dialup ISP with BSDi's BSD/OS v2.0. We used that because another ISP that I had helped used it.

At home, I install FreeBSD 2.1.5 to learn more for the BSD/OS. I couldn't afford a license for BSD/OS, so freebsd was a natural choice for learning.

Eventually we got more comfortable with FreeBSD then the BSD/OS, so used FreeBSD for new servers. Then we replaced the BSD/OS servers with FreeBSD.

Got a piracy scare back then decided that I liked the FreeBSD for, so deleted all the windows and warez that I had to go legit.

Back then I had a dual Pentium Pro 180mhz tower with scsi 9gb drives. That was really cool at the time.

Started #freebsdhelp with Ghostrdr on EFnet IRC.

Moved to Texas and worked as SysAdmin for another ISP/WISP. Ran FreeBSD on servers there.

Had a few years that were more Linux related than BSD, but moved on to my current work that is FreeBSD based,