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'''socket.computer'''
* 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 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 v1.0 used the socket.io-computer codebase, but with some notable changes:
==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. ▼
▲* 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 did not have the laptop image present, and was scaled fully.
▲* CollabVM had a chatroom added
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▲* Several vulnerabilities were fixed.
CollabVM has several virtual machines, including one known as "VM 2" that runs Windows XP SP3. It has
The original socket.computer ran from ~April 2014 to October 2016.
During and after the month of October 2016, the following events occured:
▲*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.
*August 25, 2018: socket.computer's domain expires and is now up for sale, confirming the project is permanently closed.
*February 2019: socket.computer now redirects to a parked domain.
==The return of socket.computer==
*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.
While socket.computer had effectively been relegated to a domain sitting in limbo for about 4 years, on April Fools Day (April 1st) 2024, that all changed.
▲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.
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==
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