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  1. wakest ⁂ (liaizon@social.wake.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 15:07:17 UTC wakest ⁂ wakest ⁂

    I was reading a bit about the history of Etherpad. I totally didn't realize that it was originally built by a startup (AppJet) that was acquihired by Google to integrate into Google Wave, and that it had real time editing *before* Google Docs.

    Sources: https://dgreenspan.com and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad

    In conversation about 2 months ago from social.wake.st permalink

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    2. Etherpad
      Etherpad (previously known as EtherPad) is an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color. There is also a chat box in the sidebar to allow meta communication. First launched in November 2008, the software was acquired by Google in December 2009, and released as open source later that month. Further development is coordinated by the Etherpad Foundation. Features and implementation Anyone can create a new collaborative document, known as a "pad". Each pad has its own URL, and anyone who knows this URL can edit the pad and participate in the associated chats. Password-protected pads are also possible. Each participant is identified by a color and a name. The software auto-saves the document at regular, short intervals, but participants can permanently save specific versions (checkpoints) at any time. Merging of changes is handled by operational transform. A "time slider" feature...
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    • Morten Juhl-Johansen (mjj@mstdn.dk)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 15:09:00 UTC Morten Juhl-Johansen Morten Juhl-Johansen
      in reply to

      @liaizon I remember that real-time cooperative editing seeming very close to magic in the early days.

      In conversation about 2 months ago permalink

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