eyeOS: Web Based Operating System
Posted by Skrud at Friday, March 10th 2006 at 11:02am
I found something really awesome on Lifehacker today. It’s called eyeOS and it’s a web-based operating system. That’s right, an entire operating system that runs in a web browser on a hosted server. There’s built-in rich text editing, contact manager, calendar… even web-browser! eyeOS is also free (as in freedom), and it incorporates some of the coolest use of AJAX that I’ve seen.
Go check it out for yourself on eyeOS.info, which is a free hosting service for eyeOS (and also has the coolest web-based registration I’ve ever seen. It’s worth registering just for that).
Wow, that has some serious potential!
It’s like we’re going back to the 70’s and 80’s with dumb terminals!
I love hearing people describe eyeOS as AJAX. It really proves the point that AJAX is just a hype word. Well, hype acronym anyway. eyeOS has been around since before people started labeling things Web 2.0 and AJAX.
That’s just because the term “AJAX” only appeard recently … Still, it sure does make some good use of it, as does GMail.