Demons of old

In our modern, cozy lifestyles it is easy to forget the troubles our predecessors had to put up with. Some did not have cooked food, others lacked clothing, still others had to huddle under trees when rains came pouring down (which was not a wise thing to do anyway). I had to live through one such horror recently. Namely, the lack of autocompletion in a command shell. A remote access tool that I am currently living "inside" of, uses "tab" to switch context and I had to feed carefully prepared command lines to this ancient demon all the time. I cannot be too grateful that I was not born 30 years ago.