boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 11 minutes later, 37 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,310,135
there was a time that the computer was a mainframe beast in some other building. what you used was merely for input and to see output, and was called a terminal. if the network or mainframe was "down", all you could do at the terminal was twiddle your balls.