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by dareiff 1418 days ago
Congratulations! Super cool. One of the first applications I was blown away by, for many different reasons, was OmniDictionary <https://web.archive.org/web/20050310043334/http://www.omnigr...>. It was something that I couldn't imagine existing, but did, and it was one of the first apps the company I worked for at the time had created. (It relied on a server!? This was an ENTIRE app?)

It used a DICT server for lookups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT

And 14 years ago, some servers still existed. They're hard to find now.

It always struck me as something fantastic to a) learn how to interface with a server b) learn cocoa/objective-c/etc c) redesign a simple app (https://www.omnigroup.com/assets/img/app/graffle-7/mac/full-...). Something you've just described in detail. Well, most of it.