@dangoodin I started using it in 1996 when my Linux PC got hacked along with pretty much every other linux box on the campus dormitory network of my university. It was mostly made up of 10Base-T hubs so sniffing was guaranteed to get you a bunch of clear-text passwords.

SSH was an adjustment but it was much easier to deal with than kerberos, which we needed for imap and other stuff. It also came with cooler features than telnet, which immediately seemed like a naive thing from some early days of a smaller, kinder internet – a mythical time when people did not hack each other's computers not for technical reasons, but out of a sense of basic respect and politeness.