Comments on Chaotic clamoring: Paper Airplane and Web Operating Systems

Hey Jadon, can't wait to see the results of your P...

2006-12-12T20:25:00.000-06:00

Hey Jadon, can't wait to see the results of your P2P Sockets + JavaScript experiment.

About the Paper Airplane prototype plugin, I'm not sure if it runs anymore; it used an older version of the Mozilla XPI installer manifest, which needs to be brought up to date. P2P Sockets has aged a bit too. It might be fun to see how well it all works today, about 2 years from when it was released.

Thanks Brad, I didn't realize it had been complete...

2006-12-12T13:04:00.000-06:00

Thanks Brad, I didn't realize it had been completed so long ago. I've played a bit with P2P Sockets, though not Paper Airplane (yet), but I was very impressed with the demo. Hopefully new browser and "WebOS" efforts can leverage this work to eliminate the need for dedicated web servers. I've got a tiny JavaScript-based experiment on top of P2P Sockets and Rhino that I hope will produce some results I can share here soon.

By the way, all the code and ideas I produced in t...

2006-12-12T12:24:00.000-06:00

By the way, all the code and ideas I produced in the project are open source, so you are free to adopt and use them.

Hi there Jadon; Paper Airplane was a research proj...

2006-12-12T12:23:00.000-06:00

Hi there Jadon; Paper Airplane was a research project from 2001 through 2004, and isn't ongoing anymore. The goal was to explore an alternative version of the web through thought experiments and prototypes. It produced the final research report you saw on the web (perhaps sucked through HyperScope as well), as well as a prototype of the P2P network itself, with the P2P Sockets project at http://p2psockets.jxta.org (now run by someone else), and the Firefox plugin prototype at http://paperairplane.us

Best,
Brad