Working with images (jpg, png, pdf, gif, svg) from the command line.
"Andy Warhol: An Artist and His Amiga", Guy Wright and Glenn Suokko, 1986
https://archive.org/stream/amiga-world-1986-01/Amiga_World_Vol_02_01_1986_Jan_Feb#page/n17/mode/2up
http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/public/warhol_amiga_report_v10.pdf
Working with sound from the command line
"Machine Tongues XVIII: A Child's Garden of Sound File Formats", Stephen Travis Pope and Guido Van Rossum, 1995
http://music.informatics.indiana.edu/~craphael/teach/I400web_backup/doc/pope95machine.pdf
Sound + Image = Video (from the command line)
"MPlayer: The project from hell", Joe Barr, 2001
http://linux.sys-con.com/node/32880
Using the command line as a model for experience.
http://www.arcadetheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SNiCC.pdf
Connecting to remote computers, users and permissions, uploading and downloading files.
Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/social-medias-dialup-ancestor-the-bulletin-board-system
BBS Documentary
https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary
Learning text editor basics, figuring out how to send an email on the command line, and dealing with encrypted text.
"A Brief History of Secure E-mail", Hilarie Orman, 2015
Combining commands together using pipes, finding files and text within files on your computer, and talking to each other on a remote computer.
Program design in the UNIX environment, Rob Pike / Brian W. Kernighan, 1984
http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf
Learning the command line prompt and getting around the hierarchy of files and folders.
Readings:
"Thirty useful unix commands"
http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~pjohnson/resources/unixShort/examples-commands.pdf
"The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", Dennis M. Ritchie, 1979
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf