Back when Flash was still around and well before it peaked, I wanted to do socket-based communication. So I built a bridge from Flash -> JavaScript -> Java Appl

Back when Flash was still around and well before it peaked, I wanted to do socket-based communication. So I built a bridge from Flash -> JavaScript -> Java Applet -> socket -> Java server (to send messages and vice versa for the receive chain). I was a terrible coder and it crashed under any kind of load (no back pressure and poor browser quality back then). But it worked and caught the attention of a bunch of influential people. XML sockets were added to ActionScript in Flash v5 ;)