Man pages Memes

Gather 'round the campfire, kids! That's Mr. Krabs telling SpongeBob horror stories about the ancient debugging rituals. Back when Stack Overflow was just a gleam in Jeff Atwood's eye, we had to read man pages - these massive walls of cryptic text with more flags than the United Nations. No fancy IDEs with tooltips, no quick Google searches, just you and terminal output that might as well have been written in hieroglyphics. We'd spend hours deciphering parameters like archaeologists, only to find the solution was a single dash we missed on page 47. The youth today with their ChatGPT don't know the trauma of typing "man grep" and watching your evening disappear.