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by jacquesm 1778 days ago
Same here, I spent many years on complex and large pieces of software with relatively little impact, and an 'all nighter' pretty much changed the world for real time video on the web. Pretty weird when you consider that it was mostly gluing together pieces that already existed and adding a small HTTP server.

I haven't been able to replicate anything close to that success in all the years since then.

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what was the software ?
This was the second iteration, the first was in 1995 and it slowly improved until we could power a service with it:

https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/https://www.camarades.com/