[[!meta  title="In the Beginning was the Command Line"]]
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By Neal Stephenson.  [Read it](http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html).
It's a bit dated, obviously, after ten years (1999), but the basic ideas are
still on target.  Plus it's a lot of fun ;).

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