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'''socket.computer''' is a website which is relatively similar to [[CollabVM]]
* 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 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
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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 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
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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