Unix-like virtual shell inside browser

Very interesting. It seems that each visitor is in a self contained environment. I made a simple HTML called "test.html" that I could access from <a href="http://cb.vu/test.html" rel="nofollow">http://cb.vu/test.html</a>. This file was only visible in my own browser,

the password for root is...root<p>Interestingly, I ran rm -rf / as root, and it acted like it wiped out everything. reboot made it act like it was rebooting, and refreshing the page showed "you broke it!" until I deleted the appropriate cookies. Fun!

This has been built using terminal.js : <a href="http://www.masswerk.at/termlib/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.masswerk.at/termlib/index.html</a><p>This sort of in browser shell seems to be useful for building stuff like "MongoDB Browser Shell" <a href="http://mongo.kylebanker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mongo.kylebanker.com/</a>

Trying the traditional bash fork bomb gives a rather fun screen. Try entering the following<p><pre><code> :(){ :|:&#38; };:</code></pre>

I hope Chrome OS includes something like this. Ssh support would be especially useful.

Surprised vi works, but hitting backspace made my browser go back in the history.

Ubiquity allows a similar interface, at an arguably better abstraction level: <a href="https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/" rel="nofollow">https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/</a>

Doesn't work in iPod! :(<p>It must be because you need an input or text area to make the virtual keyboard to appear.

If you want to try, type "invaders" (without the quotes), and enjoy...

Seriously cool! Thanks Colin, for sharing this with the world :-)

Pretty cool.. I did mostly play snake thought.

And so the circle is complete.

Try invoking ed =).

please port lynx :)