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Neal Stephenson - In The Beginning Was The Command Line
In The Beginning Was The Command Line
Intro
MGBs, Tanks and Batmobiles
Bit-Flinger
GUIs
Class Struggle on the Desktop
Honey Pot, Tar-Pit, Whatever
The Technosphere
The Interface Culture
Morlocks and Eloi at the Keyboard
Metaphor Shear
Linux
The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems
The Oral Tradition
OS Shock
Fallability, Atonement, Redemption, Trust and other Arcane Technical Concepts
Memento Mori
Geek Fatigue
Etre
Mindshare
The Right Pinky of God
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