While going through some old boxes I came across my FreeBSD 2.2.1 CDs:
This was the first set of FreeBSD CDs that I personally ever owned. I had installed and managed FreeBSD servers prior to that, using CDs owned by my employeer at the time (a small ISP in Modesto, CA). The very first version I ever used to do an install was FreeBSD 2.1.5, which was released during the summer of 1996.
It’s been over 13 years and while I don’t do any where near as much sysadmin work, I still have a soft spot for FreeBSD.