Oh man, come on... I badly need them XWebs. How much longer before we can have the "megabrowser" XWebs? You promised us 600% faster warez downloads in 2003 so now 5 years later we must be surely be able to download pr0n even faster again! Oooh me internets...
" I designed a browser because I didn't feel that other browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape were fast enough
Adnan Osmani, XWebs creator "
And there I was thinking I just needed broadband....
This browsers loaded with techno! Even has a mother fucking DVD player built-in! This aint no ordinary thick client, this is a phat client, dog!
It knows my name!? Holy shit, its got the AI'z too!
I hear you asking, who is this Adnan Osmani character anyway. He was the overall winner of the 2003 'Young Scientist' Competition. The blurb from the wiki entry reads:
"2003: Adnan Osmani was the winner for his project The graphical technological and user-friendly advancement of the Internet browser: XWebs. His project involved the development of a new networking socket and web browser that enabled faster Internet access even with an ordinary modem. However, his browser, which he intended to be sold commercially, has never been demonstrated. Named Icarus, no patents were awarded to him."
Look I can't be waiting for it any longer, I'll have to invent my own browser:
Its a browser within a browser... a hyperbrowser! But ssh.. its top secret, so dont go stealing it on me (did you like the ssh in-joke I made heehee).
"Their opinion does matter, but I don't really think it makes that much of an impression on me. If they can't look at something in a positive way then just forget about them, that's what I say."
Exactly, so leave him alone! Its those fools who produce vaporware that should be lambasted. I just hope that when XWebs finally comes out it will have an updated User Interface incorporating Microsofts XBOX 360 graphics, rather than just the old XBOX one, they're so 2002!
[wikipedia] [story] [images]
It reminds me of the web site that Homer Simpson did with the "Dancing Jesus".
ReplyDeleteStill needs more bling though!
Ha ha ha! I love your custom browser! And its fast!!
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking at the time: is this guy for real? I guess not...
Shut up Carrigaline, youre just jealous of his 733t pwning skillz.
ReplyDeleteI see you Dan, stealing my codez.
Wow! The viewport is about 800*400 pixels, and you can't resize it!
ReplyDeleteTat browser looks about as stupid as "MSN Explorer".
Btw, I got the ssh joke. When I read the first line I was thinking "Hmm, does he know what he wrote" and then on the next line...
As a new reader of your blog, I noticed something. Korean signs in the "look like" box. Are you Korean? What do they say?
Welcome to Riemann's Cut Nitro2k01. Theres nothing Korean about me I'm afraid (I don't even drive a Hyundai). I just made the picture on http://elouai.com/. The avatars a bit out of date though as I am now black, having turned so in October last year.
ReplyDeleteI have got to say..you guys are pretentious assholes. Seriously, rather than spending your time ragging on something from 5 years ago - why don't you try coming up with something new to talk about? Now that that's out of my system, here's what happened to XWebs.
ReplyDeleteIt was a project I created when I was a teenager and was NEVER going to be released commercially or as open-source to the public.(Just accept that, regardless of what you're read by journalists) - it was a messy codebase and it would only taken more of my time to start documenting the engine if it had been released for all to edit.
Did it use IE for rendering? The first ever version did. If you have any knowledge of socket connections, you should know that it IS possible to replace what IE uses to make it's end to end connections ..and thats what I achieved with the first release. I was the first person to apply the concept of segmented downloading to webpages..and any "Warez" user can tell you that that concept fundamentally should increase and optimize how much data you return from the server. XWebs never claimed to increase the total amount of data you can throughput ..merely optimize it.
I went on to later re-write the application in both C++ and .NET with it's OWN rendering engine (free of IE) and thats as far as I ever took it.
People can think that they have a right to see my code, but I have too much other shit going on in my life to delay future projects by digging up something I wrote when I was a kid.
The project had it's time. You all now have broadband and I don't believe it's required anyone. If there was enough interest in it again there may be reason to ressurect the codebase but I don't see that happening.
Wow. You're kind of a jackass. Adnan's done a lot more since that, you do realize...I mean, he was in high school at the time. I would like to think most people grow from high school, but reading your blog, I'm guessing that's not always the case. He's won second place at the Microsoft Imagine cup and a handful of others. He's got a masters degree. He's a senior web developer for his company at the age of twenty three, but more importantly, he's my husband now. So, keep you trash talking to a min. I mean, if you want XWebs so badly, then I'm sure he'll sell you a copy, but that's like trying to run windows 2000 today. I mean, sure it'll work, but it's been five years, surely there's some room for improvements. The internet IS constantly changing, after all. So I just think it's a rather moot point, don't you? Maybe you guys should just simmer on your I'm so cool I'm Homer Dancing Jesus Simpson. It just sounds like jealousy. I'm amazed and extremely proud that at the age of fifteen he decided to take on such a project. Most fifteen year old guys have trouble keeping their junk in their pants and their mind on the task at hand. So it doesn't matter how many lines of code it took, how long he worked on it, but he DID, in fact, win that competition and DID, in fact, at the age of fifteen make a web browser that read information differently, more efficiently, and to include something that reads pages isn't just brilliant, it's amazing. Imagine the blind, small children... So if you think it's a hoax, that's your problem.
ReplyDeleteI think the real issue comes down to...
He gets more goggle AND blog hits than you.
Adnan, many thanks for taking the time to comment in such detail :) I am delighted to hear that you havent vanished and have continued to progress and prosper in your career.
ReplyDeleteI wrote this post over a year ago, on a sudden recall of your project. I have to admit, I poked fun at what was written about xWebs at the time you won the Young Scientist' competition, but never did I intend to insult you personally; if at any point you felt this way I sincerely apologise.
If it's ok with you, I would be love to do a follow up post on yourself, as a former Young Scientist of the Year winner, on what you are upto these days, and what was the eventual fate of XWebs.
Thanks again for your comment!
Same as that - just a thought came into my head and I googled young scientist browser and my curiosity was answered.
ReplyDelete