It's crazy how fast it changed then. I graduated in 2002 and you literally could not leave without knowing how to use Unix. When I started in '98 the school's email system had to be checked through terminals and my dorm hadn't even been wired with Ethernet, although we had it by the second half of my freshman year.
I believe that. Others may have had a different experience to mine. I was always searching for a class that would give me the “real” Linux experience but nothing really exists like that, I think you just have to live with the tools for a bit.
