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/bin/more stephenson

¶ November 11, 2004 by Rob Friesel

Thanks to P for pointing out that Stephenson’s essay In the Beginning was the Command Line just happened to be hanging out on the web. Sweet.

Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.

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Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove. View all posts by Rob Friesel →

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