📚 Is there anything Linux/BSD related that makes you feel nostalgic about?

Browsing on reddit, somehow I bumped into this Plan 9 screenshot and man, it does look clunky, but I kinda miss those geeky times.

I'm all in for practicality and ease of use.

But, at the same time, I kinda miss that sort of adventure that was getting on the inner parts of Linux and spend days reading documentation, looking at every description in the Kernel menuconfig and getting to know, for the first time, that immense gallery of software technology that was available for free, even for the shittiest machine a low end computer could run.

Also, getting X to run, starting with fluxbox, using Xfce for a while and ending in the Gnome 2 desktop, which, contrary to Gnome3, was made to be fully customizable.

I wouldn't do it again, but it was a fun ride.