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'''socket.computer''' is a website which is relatively similar to [[CollabVM]]. The site, inbut its original run, was formerly part ofwith the many demos available on socket.io'sfollowing demos.differences:
 
CollabVM used the* socket.computer enginedid fornot CollabVMhave v1.0a userlist, butonly a user count, therewhich weremade somecollaboration notablerelatively changeshard.
* socket.computer did not have a chat room.
* socket.computer had a laptop image (and poorly scaled the screen down to fill the laptop screen)
* socket.computer periodically reset the VM every 15 minutes.
* socket.computer was fairly vulnerable to exploits, including turnbombing, server side QEMU monitor console execution, and all sorts of fun!
 
The site, in its original run, was formerly part of the many demos available on socket.io's demos.
*CollabVM's design differed from socket.computer's.
 
*socket.computer ran Windows XP while CollabVM ran many different operating systems, which ranged from Windows 95 OSR2 to Windows 7 Ultimate.
*CollabVM didv1.0 not haveused the laptop imagesocket.io-computer presentcodebase, andbut waswith scaledsome fully.notable changes:
 
*CollabVM had a chatroom added
* CollabVM's design differed from socket.computer's.
*socket.computer reset every 15 minutes. The component which made the VM reset every 15 minutes was not enabled.
* socket.computer ran Windows XP while CollabVM ran many different operating systems, which ranged from Windows 95 OSR2 to Windows 7 Ultimate.
*Several vulnerabilities were fixed.
* CollabVM did not have the laptop image present, and was scaled fully.
* CollabVM had a chatroom added
*socket.computer reset every 15 minutes. The component which made the VM reset every 15 minutes was not enabled.
* Several vulnerabilities were fixed.
 
CollabVM has several virtual machines, including one known as "VM 2" that runs Windows XP SP3. It has basically the same specifications as the socket.computer VM (barring more RAM and a far better CPU), but it is much faster and has many 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.
 
While socket.computer had effectively been relegated to a domain 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;, and 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 new incarnation now has a Xat chatroom included.
 
==The story of socket.computer==