[paxys]

While Google Wave obviously wasn't able to catch on from a product perspective, its tech DNA is in every real-time collaborative work/productivity app released in the last decade – Google Docs, Quip, OneNote, Slack, Figma, Notion. Loop is just next in line, and from what I can see doesn't bring anything crazy new to the table.

[adamnemecek]

Etherpad predates google wave by like a year. I’m sure there were others.

[tatersolid]

Back in the early 1990s we used a collaborative text editor on SparcStations running OSF/motif. I can’t remember the program name but it was pretty incredible for the time and useful for CS classes. I think it was limited to 4 concurrent editors.

[agumonkey]

There will be something massive one day, because fun and productive human collaboration, so far, is a massive source of friction and waste. A lot of offices spend tons of times synchronizing, organizing shared work.. even if it's all for a one page document. One day this will be as fun as launching a Tetris game.