I’m not a programmer at all, so anything that involves typing commands is going to baffle me!

When I was in college in the 1990s, non-STEM students regularly learned enough of the Unix command-line to:

• check their email with pine
• chat with talk or on IRC
• write their home page in HTML using pico or joe editors

The command line is something that millions of people have learned; and you can, too!

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