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by hudibras 2494 days ago
I'm so old I bought this when it was published in paperback.

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-was-Command-Line/dp/0380815...

Edit: Amazon informs me that I purchased it on 19 June 2000.
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non-entity 2494 days ago
I always forget Amazon's been around that long.
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smhenderson 2494 days ago
Yeah, IIRC they were still just a book store back then with B&N competing nicely with them. Seems like such a long time ago now!
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hudibras 2494 days ago
That same order from June 2000 included five other books and one Sega Dreamcast game (Grand Theft Auto 2), so they must have had a few non-book departments back then.
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smhenderson 2494 days ago
I guess getting into other media was probably the logical first step so makes sense.
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PhasmaFelis 2494 days ago
They started selling other media like music and videogames fairly early, but it was quite a while before it became a place to buy literally anything.
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Cbasedlifeform 2494 days ago
I bought it in paperback as well, and read and loved it immediately. I then gave it to a young programmer I met in Sapporo, who was (at the time) working with BeOS.

I have the text version (the proper one, I suppose!) on my laptop as I type.

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iNate2000 2494 days ago
I handed out copies as Christmas presents one year XD
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