I gave a presentation tonight at Nashville Girl Geek Dinner’s Code & Pinot event. We went over some UNIX history and did a bit of command line intro. Action shot:
@n8foo teaching us about #Unix at #girlgeekdinner #codeandpinot! pic.twitter.com/fvf8m8Le1q
— GGD Nashville (@ggdnashville) April 23, 2015
It was a great event! I had a lot of fun teaching something I’m passionate about (while de-rusting a bit on relating the basics!) and had some great conversation afterwards. I’ve given the history talk a number of times over the years, but the GGD Nashville crew got to experience my first test of this talk with slides! \o/ You can download my history presentation here. And here is the history of what I typed during the UNIX lesson.
Side note: We discussed the historically famous “Space Travel” game (look it up). But, all I knew was that it was a game…and I’m not a gamer. So, I had to look it up a bit more when I got home. Apparently it let you simulate travel between planets in our solar system and cost about $50-$75 in 1969 money to play a round on the GE 645 running MULTICS! Which is $320-$482 in 2015 money. No wonder re-writing the whole OS on cheaper hardware was worth it. 
If any of you were there and would like to know more, here are some good links that I used when re-acquainting myself with UNIX’s colorful history and some beginner material:
More History of UNIX
http://www.albion.com/security/intro-2.html
http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/multics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Other Good Intros
http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html
http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
Don’t have UNIX to play with? Get it in the browser with JS/UIX!
http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/
Cheat Sheets
http://files.fosswire.com/2007/08/fwunixref.pdf
http://sites.tufts.edu/cbi/files/2013/01/linux_cheat_sheet.pdf
