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I've not really thought about that before, but looking through the commit history it actually seems very likely that we were the first. Back then the WebSocket

by kraih 8y ago

I've not really thought about that before, but looking through the commit history it actually seems very likely that we were the first. Back then the WebSocket protocol looked very different from today. https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/commit/a1a7060e35a6a0965938f00a1971047bfed26b5a https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/commit/a1a7060e35a6a0965...

ricardobeat 8y ago
Close, socket.io’s first release was on January 3rd 2010. There were a few other experiments before that in late 2009.
- kraih 8y ago
  The initial commit for socket.io was actually on March 17 2010. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/c8edad861a1b920470a3ebe45b3ae64fed6bdd75 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/c8edad861a1b920...
  - ricardobeat 8y ago
    That was the first public release. There used to be a History.md file in the repo with the January date. There was a lot of experimentation even before that - browsers started adding experimental WS support on the second half of 2009, right as node was gearing up. Some artifacts from that era: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/5518f8cb2c41251282e863a5a43f2194f6b0299f/History.md https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/5518f8cb2c4125128... https://robots.thoughtbot.com/real-time-online-activity-monitor-example-with-node-js-and-websocket https://robots.thoughtbot.com/real-time-online-activity-moni... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/1Bla2JHc3f0/N3fpKe7dYWYJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/1Bla2JHc3f0/N3fpKe7dY... Another thing to keep in mind is that the precursor SSJS environments like Jack/Narwhal, Helma etc probably added it even earlier. Hard to tell since GitHub itself was new and many of these sources are hard to find today.
    - kraih 8y ago
      Public release is what counts though, we had been privately experimenting with WebSockets for weeks at that point as well.

by kraih 8y ago

ricardobeat 8y ago

Close, socket.io’s first release was on January 3rd 2010. There were a few other experiments before that in late 2009.

kraih 8y ago
The initial commit for socket.io was actually on March 17 2010. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/c8edad861a1b920470a3ebe45b3ae64fed6bdd75 https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/c8edad861a1b920...
- ricardobeat 8y ago
  That was the first public release. There used to be a History.md file in the repo with the January date. There was a lot of experimentation even before that - browsers started adding experimental WS support on the second half of 2009, right as node was gearing up. Some artifacts from that era: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/5518f8cb2c41251282e863a5a43f2194f6b0299f/History.md https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/5518f8cb2c4125128... https://robots.thoughtbot.com/real-time-online-activity-monitor-example-with-node-js-and-websocket https://robots.thoughtbot.com/real-time-online-activity-moni... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/1Bla2JHc3f0/N3fpKe7dYWYJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/1Bla2JHc3f0/N3fpKe7dY... Another thing to keep in mind is that the precursor SSJS environments like Jack/Narwhal, Helma etc probably added it even earlier. Hard to tell since GitHub itself was new and many of these sources are hard to find today.
  - kraih 8y ago
    Public release is what counts though, we had been privately experimenting with WebSockets for weeks at that point as well.