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'''socket.computer''' was a website which was similar to [[CollabVM]]. The site was formerly part of the many demos available on socket.io's demos.
CollabVM used the socket.computer engine for CollabVM v1.0, but there were some notable changes.
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.
==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 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, 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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