or Ctrl+R then search? I don't know why some people still bother with history tbh.

That's way more mental effort than pressing up a bunch of times.

Holy cow!! I didn’t know that. I have been using history > history.txt to find “that one command for that one thing” I only need once every other month or so. Thanks, now I can just do that.

Ctrl-R if you know part of the command.