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'''socket.computer'''
CollabVM used the socket.computer engine for CollabVM v1.0, but there were some notable changes.
*Several vulnerabilities were fixed.
CollabVM has several virtual machines, including one known as "VM 2" that runs Windows XP SP3. It has
==Shutdown timeline==▼
*October 9, 2016: socket.computer's freezes, and the server stops responding. This outage also affected socket.io's chat, as well as weplay.io. This makes October 9, 2016 at 11:25 PM (EST) the last known time socket.computer and weplay.io was online. ▼
The original socket.computer ran from ~April 2014 to October 2016.
▲*October 9, 2016: socket.computer
*February 19, 2017: socket.io goes offline for unknown reasons.
*March 5, 2017: After socket.io was offline for several weeks, the site came back online, with the demos page missing from socket.io entirely. socket.computer and weplay.io remain in a frozen state.
*February 2019: socket.computer now redirects to a parked domain.
*February 2020: Parked domain is not renewed, and socket.computer is now for sale.
*11:11:16AM EST February 6th, 2020: Dartz purchases the socket.computer domain.▼
▲CollabVM has several virtual machines, including one known as "VM 2" that runs Windows XP SP3. It has almost the same specifications as the socket.computer VM (has more RAM and a better CPU), but it is much faster and has several more programs preinstalled. If you are looking for a socket.computer alternative, you will want to check it out.
▲*11:11:16AM EST February 6th, 2020: Dartz purchases the socket.computer domain.
▲==The Return of socket.computer==
While socket.computer had effectively been sitting in limbo for about 4 years, on April Fools Day 2024, that all changed.
As an April Fools Day joke, the CollabVM site was redirected to socket.computer under the guise that CollabVM had shut down; the socket.computer domain was then running the original socket.io-computer, running in a VM running Ubuntu 16.04 (Even then, the socket.computer code didn't like that very much and had many bugs that didn't even happen on the original site).
On April 3rd, 2024 (fairly close to the 10th anniversary of socket.computer's existence), a custom from-scratch recreation of socket.computer written in [[wikipedia:TypeScript|TypeScript]], no longer using socket.io, was put onto the site and open sourced, and the site is now perpetually running, mostly for historical sake.
==The story of socket.computer==
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