It is obvious to me that hour hands were evolved to pick up rocks and sticks and then either wield them as weapons or throw them.
Making a fist is something we do as a last resort when we are unarmed.

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• + For the most part, commands in command lines remain backward compatible.
• + Scripting. Have you ever tried to script to a GUI? That is part of why apple-script was such a failure! It's a nightmare! Full of stuff like
  poke at the "download" item in the "file" menu
• + With a good history editor repeating prior commands (maybe with slight modification) is easy.

I personally type much faster than I mouse, so I also prefer command lines for productivity reasons.

Not even close. The guy that threw the shoes at Bush got 3 years. Bush never lifted a finger for him.

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-12/world/iraq.shoe.thrower_1_zaidi-al-maliki-and-bush-shoes?_s=PM:WORLD

Which is better?

Area = (pi) r^2

or

Area = (tau/2) r^2

It all depends on what problem you are trying to solve.
Just live with pi.

Hardware was expensive and slow. Most PCs (The MAC didn't exist yet) were running on floppys, modems were 1200 baud at best and they weren't built in, they were an extra cost and they tied up your phone line. In order to set up a computer that had a modem you were in for $1000-$2000 at least.

The necessary software didn't exist yet. There was no web browser. There weren't any decent GUI OS shells in common usage. The URL didn't even exist yet.

The infrastructure wasn't there! DNS Wasn't out yet, so you didn't have Domain Names. No DNS, and no WEB, so of course there were no search engines!

You can upload the doc file to google docs and then read it.

I just use tar archives! I put the archive on a FAT32 file system and then I keep my permissions and I don't have to be root to extract it. You also get compression for free.