the.com/commandline
the interface where you tell the computer what to do instead of politely pointing at it.
means a text-based way to control a computer by typing instructions instead of clicking icons.
from born from 1960s teletype terminals, when screens were just paper substitutes and typing was the only interface there was.
still fasterexperts often beat any GUI with pure keystrokes
unix legacymost modern shells descend from 1970s bell labs work
forgiving? noone typo can delete everything, silently
survives everywhereservers run entirely without ever seeing a mouse