Comment by purerandomness

It's been around as long as TUI tools have been around (Midnight Commander, etc)

Here's a blog post from 2014 [1] mentioning it.

Sometimes, we're the one in today's 10000, sometimes it's someone else [2]

[1] https://khanifnasrudin.blogspot.com/2014/11/text-based-user-... [2] https://xkcd.com/1053/