From a08eeb0dd8af38eb90520e42bbed9fdfac63a93c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:55:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] initial commits --- README.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2930edb..e676605 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,11 +10,33 @@ I am going to tell this story in reverse. The era: 2020 to Present -## Research and Development +## Research-and-Development The era: 2019 to Present -## Industrial Research +At the beginning of this era, in 2019, GreatApe wasn't called “GreatApe” yet. +But the idea of it being a form social-media platform, with rooms that people joined, where they had video or audio conversations, was already there — and had been there since 2017. + +In actuality, we had thoughts on a number of different for applications for the technology we were developing — +but for the sake of telling a story about _GreatApe_ we will focus on just this one appication. + +We had some constraints for the application — + +* it must to work in a web-browser, +* the user should must _not_ have to install anything to use it, +* it must be privacy-protecting (from people outside the conversation), +* it needs to make the cost of streaming video in real-time negligible. + +These constraints came from the industrial-research we had done prior to the start of this research-and-development. +(More on that later.) + +Back in the late 1990s to mid-2000s, when the core of technolgy was first invented, it wasn't yet possible to accomplish this. +But, decades later — with the addition of the WebRTC technology to the web-browser, all of a sudden it looked like it might be possible. + +The goal was to recreate the tree-stream technology which invented in the late 1990s to mid-2000s — but to this time re-create it to work within a web-browser. +Thus started the research-and-development. + +## Industrial-Research The era: 2018 to Present