[Kludge]

Holy crap this thread makes me feel incredibly old. Many of you weren't even a twinkle in your dad's eye when I was first learning how to control an entire computer by command line and writing games in BASIC.
Not bragging, just makes me feel insanely ancient. I discovered my want for hacking and mayhem when a program I wrote caused a halt and catch fire type situation on my 386, and a lot of you are still in school.
I'm just in amazement I've lived this long.

I assume you'd remember the good old Commodore 64, and subsequently the 16-bit Windows 3.1?

Mambru, I still have my Commodore sitting in my office closet, and a box with a stack of 3.1" diskettes to install Windows 3.1, all of them in order just in case I ever do have to use an A:/ drive to reinstall the basest of necessities.
I also remember when Windows still used a LOT of DOS prompts and enough heavy scripting could allow you to catalogue all your video games into a programmable list. It was always easier to just close W3.1 and boot back into DOS if you really wanted shit to get done.
It was just easier at the time.
Made switching to the Linux terminal a breeze later in life.
Then, remember when Linux was out for Commodore and Amiga with their 12-bit file allocations instead of 16 or 32? The guides are still residing, and well hidden, inside manpag.