I had the good (?) fortune to come into OS X at the end of the 10.3 days (in fact, my Powerbook didn't come with an OS install so I put Debian on it for a week

I had the good (?) fortune to come into OS X at the end of the 10.3 days (in fact, my Powerbook didn't come with an OS install so I put Debian on it for a week until Tiger was released), so I suppose I missed this phase. When I got Tiger on, Terminal was more than sufficient, and iTerm felt immature and impractical for daily use. I never understood why so many people used it, but reading this, it makes a lot of sense now.