UNIX commands = startups
March 26, 2007This is an interesting observation.
…find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups, ls became (the original) Yahoo!, find and grep became Google, rn became Bloglines, pine became Gmail, mount is becoming S3, and bash is becoming Yahoo! Pipes. I didn’t get until tonight that Twitter is wall for the web.
No wonder there are so many Mac developers and no startups building an app around msconfig.
interesting!, i suppose in absract, the pipe | is public api mashups.
For my non unix friends, the pipe operator which is | what you use to direct one input to another!.
Ha!
So is “man” Answers.com?
/dev/null = Windows
Sorry, couldn’t help myself…