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> Except that before GUIs became popular amongst programmers, the "technically unwashed" all used the command line.

Not even remotely factual. Technically unwashed before GUIs is before PC so that means mainframes. And mainframes did indeed have 'terminals' but the interface 'drawn' on these terminals were basically ascii-art GUIs.



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