I can’t say I love the terminal, if there’s a GUI for a task I’ll use that but there comes a time in every troubleshooting session where the terminal is just the only way to do something reliably.
I’m not going to lie though, I forget commands constantly so have to search the most basic shit to type in.
It was a thing for most of the world, I just don’t believe it really caught on in the US, it was called teletext and was really widely used.
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