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.

GUIs tend to be more user-friendly than command-line interfaces, which require commands to be typed on a keyboard or other input device. GUIs are often composed of one or more icons (which are ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...