You continue your journey to find a laptop. You take a few steps to your left in order to avoid potential terminal terminations. That fear will persist as long as you play this game. In the future, you will use many more terminals for various things, mostly game mechanics, like the slightly mentioned ectobilogy, but also for things like commanding invisible armies to fight wars along the sheet music of time. You probably understand even less of that latter than you do the former, but both involve terminals, and both are vital for your continued survival in this game.
You push onwards.