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GreatApe story
GreatApe — live audio and video conversations for the Fediverse.
This is the story of GreatApe!
I am going to tell this story in reverse.
Fediverse
The era: 2020 to Present
Research-and-Development
The era: 2019 to Present
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
Hiatus
The era: 2010 to 2018
Show in a Box
The era: 2007 to 2010
Vloggercon
Vlog
VideoBlogging Mailing List
HTML5 video
The era: 2006 to Present
Invention
The era: late 1990s to mid-2000s