I grew up using the command line. And then with the Mac, Windows and the Internet - it was gone.
But it's been coming back slowly.
I've been thinking about the "web command line" for a while.
Yes, Google Search is a web command line for years now, doing conversions and calculations (to name a few) and not just search.
And there's been some attempts to take this further, like yubnub.org
But recently the command line is creeping back in web's true style - unnoticed, uncoordinated, distributed. Slowly and surely.
It's in twitter where you use prefix characters to denote other users and topics in a text box inside your browser.
It's in blip.fm where you control broadcasting to other sites by a prefix exclamation mark in a text box inside your browser.
It's in aardvark where you interact with other users using text commands in the text box of your IM client.

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So, this guy Glenn Beck is live on Fox, interviewing this guy Robert Gellately, author of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler.
Glenn Beck: So, when Lenin came to power through the 1917 revolution, he had all the heads of factories and businessmen killed, right?
Robert Gelatelly: Right.
GB: And, this is sort of like what president Obama is doing to the AIG execs now, right?
RG: Right.
And it goes on.

A little crazy in the head, aren't we?

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