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Great, you just hit the nail on the head. I was wrong. It was Sun Microsystems, the system I'm talking about, not Oracle. You're talking about the same system I am with those smart cards, or you could do a physical login with a username and password. But yes, the terminals were very small. They didn't have hard drives in them. They had RAM and a processor and whatever, but everything was user-based, and it would go to that server. And it was pretty instant. It would boot into the system, and then you were on a lock screen, and then when you logged in, all your windows would stay open, all your files were accessible. It was like you were sitting in front of your own computer, and you could be somewhere else. And you just used that card, what were they called? Sunflowers or something? I can't remember, man. I know I watched a few videos. It was a series, and these were long videos about how to configure the server and then the workstations and how to set up the accounts. Because I'm trained in Windows network management and network infrastructure, so I'm familiar with things like Active Directory, well, mainly Active Directory for file sharing on a server. You'd have an empty server or a Windows server, and then all your files would appear to be local, but they weren't. They were coming through the Active Directory and through path mapping and stuff like that. So it's years ago since I did all that stuff, but I've got advanced knowledge into TCP, IP, and the older network protocols like IPX, STX, and all of that stuff. I mean, I did the brunt of my network training in the early to mid-2000s, so I mean, it's dated now, but all the protocols and everything are all still the same. So I was actually thinking about maybe taking out a student loan, and I've been hemming and hawing about this. That means I've been back and forth about the whole idea because it would put me in student debt again, which I don't currently have. All my student loans are paid off now. So that's how I know I could get another one if I wanted it. But I was thinking about getting into Internet security and threat detection, and possibly taking that on. But then I was thinking maybe there's no demand for that here in Newfoundland, and maybe I'd be in the same situation where the knowledge I got now would get me a fairly good job outside Newfoundland, but the same thing would probably apply to Internet security and threat detection. So I've kind of debated against it more so lately, but I thought about adding another service to my repertoire actually, and that being data recovery because I've been playing around with that a bit lately, and I actually took some older hard drives, some SSDs out of some computer.