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This is about a shell in computer science. If you are looking for one of the components of shells and cheese, you will not find it here, retard.

A shell on a computer allows the end user to communicate with the kernel of the computer, and in some operating systems, the devil. There are two known types of shells, graphical (i.e. Windows) and command-line (i.e. UNIX). The difference between the two is that graphical shells tend to fuck up alot and BSOD quite a bit, while command-line style allows you to totally fuck up your system beyond repair.

Here is a list of different shells:

UNIX Shells:

• sh
• bsh
• csh
• ksh
• bash
• zsh
• sfdl;jaajs;ldfal;ekb

Windows Shells:

• Explorer
• Explorer

There are other open-source shells available for Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) but they are puny and irrelevant.

History

At least 100 years ago, some nerd decided to build a computer. Unfortunately, he never got laid or had any friends, and so I had to figure out a way to talk to the computer. The nerd, sometimes referred to as "Linus Torvalds," created the first shell, called "gaysh" and he used it to develop the most powerful person ever: Optimus Prime. With Optimus created, Linus proceeded to take over the planet. No one knows what happened next, but we know that they won. They enslaved sexually straight individuals and forced them to perform sex all day long. This was cool for awhile, and then God got pissed and killed Linus, and all that was left was Optimus Prime, who left for Mars because he's a big baby faggot bitch. To this day, homosexuals still worship Linus, and hope that he may come back to save them.

Meanwhile, the GNU Force had their hands full with the first computer. They made UNIX, and from UNIX came Bill Gates, who rejected his father csh. csh called young Bill "Explorer" for this. Bill was pissed that his father still called him and so Bill killed csh with his new found abilities. He was at level 3.1 then. Today Bill "Explorer" Gates is at level Vista, apparently a level so powerful it will never be perfect.