title: How to find history of shell commands since machine was created?
body: <p>I created an Ubuntu virtualbox machine a couple weeks ago and have been working on projects off and on in it since then. </p>
  
  <p>Now I would like to find the syntax of some commands I typed in the terminal a week ago, but I have opened and closed the terminal window and restarted the machine numerous times.</p>
  
  <p><strong>How can I get the <code>history</code> command to go back to the first command I typed after I created the machine, or is there another place that all the commands are stored in Ubuntu?</strong></p>