2004 Command Line
Filed under: Lance's Corner by on 1/7/2005
The Command Line in 2004 is a fan written update/annotation to Neal Stephenson’s 1999 essay “In the Beginning was the Command Line”.
The author even got permission to keep it online from Mr. Stephenson’s handlers. Sometimes you just have to ask.
One of my favorite bits from the new version:
”... pry open the cardboard box, wrestle the styrofoam jaws apart, and dump the thing on a tabletop. “There!” we say. “A brand-new computer!” But by the historical definition, we’re actually looking at dozens of computers. A heap of computers. A computing collective.”
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