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Startup? 15 years ago apps like this would be a nice weekend projects we'd do for fun or (mostly) to impress each other in high school: doing it under DOS using
by tx 18y ago
Startup? 15 years ago apps like this would be a nice weekend projects we'd do for fun or (mostly) to impress each other in high school: doing it under DOS using x86 assembly mixed up with some Pascal was comparable to JavaScript's capabilities of modern day.
In 2008 it's a "startup". Nicely done.
- rms 18y agoWhy would this be any less viable than Zenter or Writely?
- tx 18y agoI didn't said it was. I just find it funny how history repeats itself: when I was a kid, doing something like this was a fun challenge, since most computers worked in text mode 80x25 characters, and after a while an application like that became trivial and boring to write (since about Windows 3.0 on PC). But fast-forward 10 years and thanks to advances in technology - bam! It's hard again :)
- zhyder 18y agoSure it's no more than a weekend project (though it took me a LOTT longer than that). If a weekend project has the potential to add value to the lives of many users -which I'm hoping for-, I'd call it a startup.
- axod 18y agoHere's my attempt (I wrote this 8 years ago and the code has rotted) http://chat.axod.net/draw http://chat.axod.net/draw Still works though, realtime multi-user drawing. Java applets eh hehe