Screenshots from Developers and Unix people (2012)

I hope that rxvt-unicode has entered some people's lives since then, but that otherwise things still look the same.

For me, 2002 was the GNOME wasteland between Windowmaker and Openbox. You could still right-click for a terminal, which made it tolerable. Once Openbox came of age it was like having AfterStep back, without the horrible font rendering.