Separate comment for a separate thread maybe: there are also a few interesting things that "fell out" of MOO research. One thing was AstroVR, which was an envi

Separate comment for a separate thread maybe: there are also a few interesting things that "fell out" of MOO research. One thing was AstroVR, which was an environment for collaborative control over telescopes. That had an advanced client called Jupiter, which PARC researchers IIRC used to develop a protocol (also called Jupiter?) that supported distributed interfaces and provided correct ordering of event messages. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/High-latency%2C-low-bandwidth-windowing-in-the-system-Nichols-Curtis/369c52d8214b73a86b1e3f31d287823ea91884d6 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/High-latency%2C-low-ba... https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/217279.215128 https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/217279.215128 https://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass94/vanburend1.html https://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass94/vanburend1.h... As far as I am aware, that work pretty heavily influenced SubEthaEdit and Google Wave. And Pavel Curtis's team eventually ended up providing the backbone of the MS Office live meeting stuff.