The site had just published a piece in praise of the command line -- where you interact with a computer by passing it line after line of text, rather than using a graphical user interface, or GUI.

Command Line vs. GUI The user interface in the earliest computers comprised buttons and dials. Although the first personal computers had screens, the computer was operated by typing text commands.

Before the mid 1980's the most common way people could interact with their devices was through command line interfaces, which though efficient, aren't really designed for casual users.

Before the slick bells and whistles of the modern graphical user interface (GUI), the humble command line interface (CLI) ruled the roost — purely text-based commands typed via a keyboard to ...

Ok, consider the text editor Pico. If you're in command line Unix/Linux, and you type "pico", suddenly you're presented with a graphical interface (granted, it blows compared to MS Word, etc).

When it comes to firewalls, most system administrators prefer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than a command-line interface (CLI), a new academic study published over the summer has ...