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75 lines
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# GreatApe story
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GreatApe — live audio and video conversations for the Fediverse.
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This is the story of GreatApe!
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I am going to tell this story in reverse.
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## Fediverse
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The era: 2020 to Present
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## Research-and-Development
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The era: 2019 to Present
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At the beginning of this era, in 2019, GreatApe wasn't called “GreatApe” yet.
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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.
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In actuality, we had thoughts on a number of different for applications for the technology we were developing —
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but for the sake of telling a story about _GreatApe_ we will focus on just this one appication.
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We had some constraints for the application —
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* it must to work in a web-browser,
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* the user should must _not_ have to install anything to use it,
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* it must be privacy-protecting (from people outside the conversation),
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* it needs to make the cost of streaming video in real-time negligible.
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These constraints came from the industrial-research we had done prior to the start of this research-and-development.
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(More on that later.)
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Back in the late 1990s to mid-2000s, when the core tree-stream technolgy was first invented — the technology that would later be called “logjam” — it wasn't yet possible to accomplish this.
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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.
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The goal was to recreate the tree-stream (“logjam”) technology which invented in the late 1990s to mid-2000s — but to this time re-create it to work within a web-browser.
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Thus started the research-and-development.
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## Industrial-Research
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The era: 2018 to Present
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## Hiatus
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The era: 2010 to 2018
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## Show in a Box
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The era: 2007 to 2010
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**Show in a Box**, often initialized to as “**SIAB**”, was the first open-source social-media software for video.
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In this era, both _decentralized_ social-media networks and _centralized_ social-media networks were popular.
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MySpace was a popular _centralized_ social-media network in this era — it had a lot to do with why another _centralized_ social-media network, YouTube, initially got popular.
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Although, back then, YouTube was mainly used as a way of sharing videos on MySpace — because it was the only free video hosting website that supported playing video in (a non defunct technology known as) Flash.
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A popular **decentralized** social-media network, in this era, was what was then called the **blogosphere** — the network of **weblogs** (often shorterned as “blogs“).
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Although during this era, there was still some debate (that began in the late 1990s) over whether to call these “**web-logs**”, or “**web-journals**”, or “**web-diaries**”.
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As the story goes — “**web-log**” won, got concatenated as “**weblog**”, someone (not knowing “**weblog**” = “**web**” + “**log**”) thought it was a concatenation for “**we**” + “**blog**” and shortened it to “**blog**”.
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## Vloggercon
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## Vlog
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## VideoBlogging Mailing List
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## HTML5 video
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The era: 2006 to Present
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## Invention
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The era: late 1990s to mid-2000s
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