Word: pined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...type pine, check your e-mail, quit, and log off. And that's all you do with your account. I know you feel ashamed, embarrassed, wasteful. I know you're thinking, "I pay $30,000 a year to go here and all I know how to do is run pine...
...know that when you're in the computer lab, you look over and see other people doing very non-pine things from their accounts. It's time to stop cowering before the pine gods, and get on with your life as a card-carrying netizen...
...sign is what's known as a "command prompt." When you type pine and press the Enter key, you're simply telling fas to run an Internet e-mail program called pine. But fas and all of Harvard's Unix systems have dozens of other programs just waiting to be called...
...complicated at all to read news; just type tin at the fas% prompt instead of typing pine. Tin is a perfect newsreader for beginners, and a great way to get into the world of Usenet...
...forget that the fas% is your key to the status symbol of the 1990s: your very own page on the World Wide Web! Forgo pine for a bit, and you can create a masterpiece about, well, anything you feel like putting...