Close to 100 percent of email servers are UNIX machines -- when you send email to john@email.unc.edu, you are sending a message to the user "john" at the machine named "email" at UNC. Also, if you check your email, you are using a UNIX system (the menu makes it easy.) It looks like the following to you:
Also, this web page is resident on a UNIX web server, so by downloading it, you have used a UNIX machine indirectly, and if you have an Internet Service Provider, then you are most likely dialing into a UNIX computer.
As you can see, UNIX has really become important in the Internet Age. While it used to be the tool of computer scientists only, it is now a networking tool for the masses. Check out the other rest of this site to learn how to get more from UNIX.
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