My first Linux distro was Red Hat Linux 6.1 my mom bought as a Christmas present in 1999.
Trying to get that thing online was a challenge for a 13 year boy but I persevered and managed to figure out how PPPD works. It was clearly written by hackers for hackers back then and very unforgiving:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_daemon
