Bukkit was in fact preceded by hey0's mod, the project of a 15 year old kid who was largely responsible for bootstrapping the entire line of Minecraft server mo

Bukkit was in fact preceded by hey0's mod, the project of a 15 year old kid who was largely responsible for bootstrapping the entire line of Minecraft server mod APIs. After all these years though it is extremely exciting to see this advancement, I'd expect this to allow extremely large servers. Makes me want to start playing again ^_^