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James (http://www.theiconoclast.ca) has been a friend of the family for many years, and a close personal friend of mine. it has been an interesting process trying to help him to adapt to the new communications options that have come about from the inception of the world wide web and later content management systems.

The CLI website (http://cli.rivas.ca/) is a project that I started during school, because i thought it would be amusing to create a unix-like shell that runs as a web based interface. The original idea was simply to embed certain functions into the JavaScript code running on the website client side. I began by making a shell that echos user input by writing it into a div from a standard HTML input. Then i realized that i could use AJAX to make calls back to the webserver to complete requests that were carried by the http POST method.