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Amiga software
Amiga software covers a wide range of software for the Amiga computer, both productivity and games, commercial, freeware and hobbyist. The Amiga software market was particularly active in the late 1980s and early 1990s but has since the period 1996/1999 dwindled into almost only a hobbyist...

 and refers to any communication and internet software that run on Amiga
Amiga
The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 line of computers.

See also related articles Amiga productivity software
Amiga productivity software
With the term "productivity software" is usually intended a category of tools and programs aimed at producing results dedicated to a specific purpose or job and literally it is the kind of tools and applications that are used to produce documents, presentations, databases, charts and graphs,...

, Amiga music software
Amiga music software
This article deals with music software created for the Amiga line of computers and covers the AmigaOS operating system and its derivates AROS and MorphOS and is a split of main article Amiga software....

, Amiga programming languages
Amiga programming languages
This article deals with programming languages used in the Amiga line of computers, running the AmigaOS operating system and its derivatives AROS and MorphOS...

, Amiga support and maintenance software
Amiga support and maintenance software
Support and maintenance software are those programs that perform service utilities on a computer. These services could be various ones, such as format media to be used with a specific filesystem, diagnose any failure that could occur on that media, recover the data after the failure of the media,...

 for other information regarding software that run on Amiga.

Modem, Direct Connect, BBS managing, Fidonet, Packet Radio

  • Termite, X-Term, A-Term, Baud Bandit I and II, OnLine!
  • Direct parallel and serial cable connect: ParNET, SerNET
  • Fidonet Mail: Amiga version of GNU AWK, AmyBW, Q-Blue QWK
    QWK
    QWK is file-based offline mail reader format that was popular among bulletin board system users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. QWK was originally developed by Mark "Sparky" Herring in 1987 for systems running the popular PCBoard bulletin board...

     and Blue Wave
    Blue Wave
    Blue Wave is a file-based offline mail reader that was popular among bulletin board system users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail...

     mail readers
  • BBS management: C-NET II, Zeus BBS, Hydra BBS, DLG Pro, Amiexpress
    Amiexpress
    AmiExpress - also known as /X - by Synthetic Technologies was a popular BBS software application for the Commodore Amiga line of computers. AmiExpress was extremely popular among the warez scene for trading software....

    , Infinity, Tempest
  • Packet Radio: AmiCom, AmigaTNC, and Amipac
  • Amateur radio
    Amateur radio
    Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...

    :
    Amiga Amateur Radio Group, AMIGA-FAX/SSTV, METEO/FAX/SSTV, PakRatt, Multicom
    MultiCom
    MultiCom is the products name of a broad range of broadband router and firewalls, including VPN IPSec gateway with strong encryption and security, developed and manufactured by Lightning MultiCom in Switzerland, Europe....

    , AmTOR
    AMTOR
    AMTOR is a type of telecommunications system that consists of two or more electromechanical teleprinters in different locations that send and receive messages to one another. AMTOR is a specialized form of RTTY protocol...

    , AmigaCALL

Prestel, Videotel, Videotex, Minitel

In some European countries, and especially in France, Minitel
Minitel
The Minitel is a Videotex online service accessible through the telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services. It was launched in France in 1982 by the PTT...

 data transmitting services were very popular before the rise of Internet. Minitel started the phenomenon of chatting, exchange mail, providing on-line services such as railways or TV broadcast timetables, travel and hotel booking, etcetera. Minitel used little terminals rented from telephone companies or computers with modems that accept Minitel transmission protocol speed. The speed was asynchronous at 1200/75 baud (1200 baud receiving, 75 baud transmitting). There were made Amiga Minitel communication programs in France, Germany and Italy. In Italy it was released Amiga Videotel.

Teletext, Televideo, Viewdata

Teletext is an information retrieval service system based on transmitting data with normal TV broadcast signals and showing it separately, without interfering with normal TV programs. About this kind of service, on Amiga there are TV cards viewers that view Teletext pages and save them as standard image files. Standalone programs for Teletext included the Amiga Teletext program, and the datatype Videotex Datatype.

FAX, Answering Machine and Voice Mail

AFax, Amiga-FAX, GPFax, FaxQuik, STFax, TrapFax, AVM, MultiAnswer, Zyxel Voice Mail

ISDN

ISDN digital telephone and circuit-switched telephone network system were supported via the expansion cards ISDN Master and ISDN Master II, their drivers and related software.

Networking and Ethernet protocols

Depending from the hardware cards and their drivers and software, Amiga supported SANA-II protocols, Envoy
Envoy (title)
In diplomacy, an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary is, under the terms of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an Ambassador and a Minister Resident....

 protocols from IAM, AS225, AS225r2 TCP-IP from Commodore, DECnet
DECnet
DECnet is a suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation, originally released in 1975 in order to connect two PDP-11 minicomputers. It evolved into one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus transforming DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s...

, Novell Netware
Novell NetWare
NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, with network protocols based on the archetypal Xerox Network Systems stack....

 through Amiga Client for Novell Netware, Quicknet
Quicknet
Quicknet is an Ajax framework designed to develop web applications or websites that use passwords to identify correct users. Using this framework, no cleartext password would be sent over the network or stored in the server...

 fast proprietary peer to peer procol, Appletalk
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of protocols developed by Apple Inc. for networking computers. It was included in the original Macintosh released in 1984, but is now unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10.6 in 2009 in favor of TCP/IP networking...

 through emulators. Other network protocols available were AmigaUUCP, DNET
DNET
DNET is a proprietary software suite of network protocols created by DIAB, originally deployed on their Databoard products. It was based upon X.25, which was particularly popular in European telecommunications circles at that time...

, Link-It and Enlan-DFS. Amiga currently supports also Samba
Samba (software)
Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. As of version 3, Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Primary Domain...

, and SMBFS.

World Wide Web



Almost all these programs are recent and available mainly for new Amiga platforms.
  • Amiga TCP/IP: AmiTCP, EasyNet, Genesis
    GENESIS (software)
    GENESIS is a simulation environment for constructing realistic models of neurobiological systems at many levels of scale including subcellular processes, individual neurons, networks of neurons, and neuronal systems.GENESIS was developed in the Caltech laboratory of Dr. James M...

    , Miami and Miami Deluxe, Roadshow for AmigaOS
    AmigaOS
    AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...

    , MosNet and NetStack for MorphOS (both based on AmiTCP).
  • Amiga AMP: Apache
    Apache HTTP Server
    The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...

    , MySQL
    MySQL
    MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

    , Perl
    Perl
    Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

    /PHP
    PHP
    PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

    /Pyhton
    Python (programming language)
    Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

     (scripting languages) solution stack
    Solution stack
    In computing, a solution stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to deliver a fully functional solution, e.g. a product or service....

     AAMP.
  • Browsers:
  • Old browsers or "text only" based ones:
    • Amiga Mosaic
      AMosaic
      AMosaic is an Amiga port of the Mosaic web browser, developed beginning in 1993, and was the first graphical web browser for the Amiga. AMosaic was based on NCSA's Mosaic, but was not distributed by the University of Illinois or NCSA...

      , Amiga Lynx
      Alynx
      ALynx is an ASCII-Web browser for Amiga / which is a port of Lynx version 2.4-FM.The current stable version of ALynx is 1.29 and is still available to be downloaded from the Amiga Aminet Repository.Version 1.31 is also available....

      , Emacs/W3
      Emacs/W3
      Emacs/W3 is a text-based web browser for the GNU Emacs text editor, written primarily by William M. Perry and entirely in GNU Emacs Lisp. Emacs/W3 is part of the Sumo package for XEmacs, and the submodule for fetching an URL is currently part of the GNU Emacs CVS repository.As by the maintainer,...

       WWW client in GNU Emacs
      Emacs
      Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...

      .
  • Modern browsers up to HTML 3.2 without CSS:
    • IBrowse
      IBrowse
      IBrowse is an MUI-based web browser for the Amiga range of computers, and was a rewritten follow-on to Amiga Mosaic, one of the first web browsers for the Amiga Computer. IBrowse was originally developed for a company called Omnipresence, now defunct...

      , Voyager
      Voyager (web browser)
      Voyager is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers, developed by VaporWare.Voyager supports HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4, JavaScript, frames, SSL, Flash, and various other Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator features....

      , AWeb
      AWeb
      AWeb is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers. Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3.9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source....

      , and also Amaya
      Amaya (web browser)
      Amaya is a free and open source WYSIWYG web authoring tool with browsing abilities, created by a structured editor project at the INRIA, a French national research institution, and later adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium . Amaya is used as a testbed for web standards and replaced the Arena...

       through the X11 Amiga compatibility graphic engine library Cygnix.
  • Actual Browsers with HTML 4.0 and CSS:
    • OWB Origyn Web Browser
      Origyn Web Browser
      Origyn Web Browser is a web browser that is synchronized with WebKit and sponsored by web enabler Pleyo. OWB provides a meta-port to an abstract platform with the aim of making porting to embedded or lightweight systems quicker and easier...

       is the de-facto modern Browser for all Amiga systems. OWB for AmigaOS 4
      AmigaOS 4
      AmigaOS 4, , is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner...

       and Classic Amigas (OS 3.9) was developed by Italian Andrea Palmaté and then updated by German programmer Joerg Strohmayer. AmigaOS Classic version is 1.6 and based upon original codename version "Blastoise" (this software also integrates itself with IBrowse). Current AmigaOS 4.X version is 3.22 based upon original version codenamed "Pukapuka". Origyn Web Browser for AROS is 0.9.9. Actual MorphOS version is 1.11 (also based on "Pukapuka") and it the first version to support HTML5 media tags and through FFMpeg
      FFmpeg
      FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...

      .
    • NetSurf
      NetSurf
      NetSurf is an open source web browser which runs on a variety of platforms including RISC OS, AmigaOS and Unix-like systems. NetSurf has features that include tabbed browsing, text selection and PDF export...

       for AmigaOS 4
      AmigaOS 4
      AmigaOS 4, , is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner...

       and MorphOS also through Cygnix and native.
  • Released as beta:
    • Sputnik Browser for MorphOS
      MorphOS
      MorphOS is an Amiga-compatible computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the...

       and AmigaOS
      AmigaOS
      AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...

      .
  • In development:
    • TimberWolf: Amiga version of Shiretoko
      Mozilla Firefox 3.5
      Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is a version of the Firefox web browser released in June 2009, adding a variety of new features to Firefox. Version 3.5 was touted as being twice as fast as 3.0...

       FireFox (The Alpha1 version is available for free downloading online since june 9, 2010). It is based on a porting of XUL
      XUL
      In computer programming, XUL , the XML User Interface Language, is an XML user interface markup language developed by the Mozilla project. XUL operates in Mozilla cross-platform applications such as Firefox...

       on Amiga.

(Sputnik and OWB are based upon WebKit
WebKit
WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

)
  • E-mail: Thor, YAM
    YAM (Yet Another Mailer)
    YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ...

    , Simplemail
    SimpleMail
    SimpleMail are two free, open-source email clients first released publicly in September, 2002 and April, 2005.- First client features :SimpleMail is a simple to use but powerful mail client for Amiga OS. It supports the SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols...

    , Anubis
  • Newsreaders: NewsRog, MicroDot
    Microdot
    A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size onto a 1mm disc to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular around one millimetre in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester...

     II, NewsCoaster
  • Internet Radio: AmiAMP (Amiga look-alike version of WinAMP
    Winamp
    Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp...

    ), AmiNetRadio, TuneNet.
  • Gopher: Gopherexx
  • Proxy server: PProxy, Privoxy
    Privoxy
    Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering Web pages and removing advertisements...

  • PPP: AmiPPP, Multilink
    Multilink
    Multilink may refer to:*Multi-link suspension, a type of vehicle suspension design.*Multilink PPP, a type of communications protocal*Multilink Procedure*Multilink striping, a type of data striping used in telecommunications....

  • Telnet: AmTelnet
  • Podcasting: AmiPodder
  • Amiga RSS Feed: AmRSS
  • Distributed net: DNetC
    Distributed.net
    distributed.net is a worldwide distributed computing effort that is attempting to solve large scale problems using otherwise idle CPU or GPU time. It is officially recognized as a non-profit organization under U.S...

  • GPS (Global Positioning System): Actually there is no Amiga software to pilot GPS devices.
  • Google Services:
    • GoogleMaps: Supported through OWB Browser
    • Google Earth: Supported through OWB Browser
    • GoogleMail: Supported only in 'basic HTML
      HTML
      HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

      ' mode.
    • Google Picasa: Supported through OWB Browser on all Amiga systems or directly through WAManager (MOS) dedicated software.
    • GoogleBar Toolbar: Not supported by Amiga Browsers
  • Amiga Instant Messaging and Chat: AmTalk, ACUSeeMe, AmIRC, Amiga Jabberwocky multistandard Instant Messaging based on Jabber Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an open-standard communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML . The protocol was originally named Jabber, and was developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999 for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging , presence...

    , Epistula Instant Messaging, SabreMSN, MomosIRC, AmiGG, GadAmi based on popular Gadu gadu and Tlen
    Tlen
    Tlen.pl is an adware licensed Polish instant messaging service. It is fully compatible with Gadu-Gadu instant messenger.The communication protocol is based on open source jabberd code, but it was modified significantly, making it incompatible with generic XMPP clients and servers. Among other...

     polish instant messaging services, WookieChat, climm, Bitlbee
    BitlBee
    BitlBee is a cross-platform IRC instant messaging gateway, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.BitlBee communicates with the user via the IRC protocol, providing a gateway to popular chat networks such as AIM and ICQ via OSCAR, .NET Messenger Service, Yahoo! and XMPP and the...

  • Twitter: AmiTwitter for AmigaOS Classic, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
  • Voice Calls, Voice Chat, VoIP and Internet Phone Services:
    • Messenger Voice Chat: Not supported
    • Skype VoIP: Not supported
    • H.323 VoIP Protocol: Not supported
    • Amiga Voice Calls: It has been reported of AmTalk supporting voice calls between two Amiga running that program, but this feature it is unconfirmed.
  • FTP: ATC (Amiga Trading Centre), Amiga wget
    Wget
    GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get...

    , AmFTP, AmiFTP, GUI-FTP, HTTPResume, Charon
    Charon (web browser)
    Charon is a web browser for the Inferno operating system. It is a basic graphical browser with support for JavaScript, HTTPS, and basic support for FTP.- History:...

    , CManager, FTPMount (mounts remote FTP as standard Amiga devices), Pete's FTP (PFTP).
  • FTP Server: Amiga RC-FTPd, AmiFTPd
  • Weather casting news: Amiga WET, Weather Experience, Wetter.
  • Live Webcam supporting: AmiWebView, WebVision, WebCam
    • Amiga USB Webcam Driver: Personal Webcam, Amiga Sonix webcam driver for various models of USB webcams
  • Clock Synchronization
    Clock synchronization
    Clock synchronization is a problem from computer science and engineering which deals with the idea that internal clocks of several computers may differ. Even when initially set accurately, real clocks will differ after some amount of time due to clock drift, caused by clocks counting time at...

    :
    FACTS
  • SMS Short Messages: TaskiSMS
  • Web development & HTTP Server: Apache
    Apache HTTP Server
    The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...

     for Amiga, Apache PHP, Thttpd
    Thttpd
    thttpd is an open source software web server from ACME Laboratories, designed for simplicity, a small execution footprint and speed. thttpd is single-threaded and portable: it compiles cleanly on most Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, SunOS 4, Solaris 2, BSD/OS, Linux, and OSF/1...

    , Thttpd PHP, WebMaker HTML editor, Ami.HTML Webscape
  • Peer2Peer: Amiga Mule, Transmission, enqueueTorrent BitTorrent, Bourriquet, BeeHive
    Beehive
    A beehive is a structure in which bees live and raise their young.Beehive may also refer to:Buildings and locations:* Bee Hive, Alabama, a neighborhood in Alabama* Beehive , a wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings...

    , CTorrent, AmiGift, EDonkey
    EDonkey
    eDonkey may refer to:* eDonkey network , a popular file sharing network** eDonkey2000, a discontinued file sharing program that used the eDonkey network...

    , mlDonkey
    MLDonkey
    MLDonkey is an open source, multi-protocol, peer-to-peer file sharing application that runs as a back-end server application on many platforms. It can be controlled through a user interface provided by one of many separate front-ends, including a Web interface, telnet interface and over a dozen...

  • VCast, Online VCR: otrMUI for MorphOS by Thomas Igracki
  • Youtube: On AmigaOS
    AmigaOS
    AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...

     and MorphOS
    MorphOS
    MorphOS is an Amiga-compatible computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the...

     there are various clients or downloaders for Youtube all based upon scripts made by ARexx
    ARexx
    ARexx is an implementation of the REXX language for the Amiga, written in 1987 by William S. Hawes, with a number of Amiga-specific features beyond standard REXX facilities. Like most REXX implementations, ARexx is an interpreted language...

     language. These scripts spare some functions from existing Amiga programs like wget
    Wget
    GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get...

     and MPlayer
    MPlayer
    MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor...

     and join them in a big meta-application utility able to handle Youtube animations: youtube downloader.rexx from Fabien Coeurjoly, ib youtube.rexx by Ferrón Garcìa loading youtube movies into Amiga browser IBrowse, getvideo.rexx by Jürgen Lucas, and Youtube client TubeXX by Paolo Germano, Flayer ARexx script by Amiga programmer Robert Williams
    Robert Williams
    - United Kingdom :*Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet , Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon Boroughs, 1659*Robert Williams - United Kingdom :*Sir Robert Williams, 2nd Baronet (c. 1627–1678), Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire, 1656–1658, and for Carnarvon...

    .
  • Flash player: Amiga SWFPlayer
  • Monitoring webpages: Seventhsense
  • Remote Desktop: TwinVNC, VNCServer, MorphVNC
  • Pretty Good Privacy
    Pretty Good Privacy
    Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security...

    :
    PGP 2.6.3i by Robert Knop and Joerg Strohmayer
  • SSL, SSH: AmiSSL, Amiga OpenSSL
    OpenSSL
    OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. The core library implements the basic cryptographic functions and provides various utility functions...

    , Amiga OpenSSH
    OpenSSH
    OpenSSH is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol...

    , SSHCON
  • Web Album Photo Sharing Services: WAManager (for MorphOS) handles Google Picasa
    Picasa
    Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

     web album service.
  • Other: Sniffy
    Sniffy
    Sniffy: The Virtual Rat also known as Sniffy Pro and Sniffy Pro for Windows is a suite of computer software used for teaching the psychology of learning which simulates a rat in an operant box and can be used to run experiments and classical conditioning and operant conditioning.It is designed as...

    , Net Tools (net ping, resolve, traceroute, etc.), Gallerius (generator of HTML galleries)

Communication Protocols

Skypix
Skypix
Skypix is the name of a Script Markup Language aimed to add rich graphic content such as changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound to Bulletin Board System nodes. The system was born on Amiga Systems in 1987 and available on BBS program called Skyline BBS.Skypix was probably...

is the name of a communication protocol born on Amiga. It could be considered one of the very first (or even the real first) modern interactive online graphics-and-sound protocol., as it was introduced in 1987 as part of the Skyline (Atredes) BBS System, running on the program Skyline BBS and Skyterm terminal for the Amiga system. Years before the World Wide Web, Skypix allowed rich interactive graphics and sound, as well as mouse control, to be a part of the online experience, which was until then limited to text and ANSI graphics. Skypix allowed users the ability to write graphical programs and link them into the system, as well as the first "authoring program", Skypaint. Skypix created a large worldwide group of enthusiastic game and online application writers years before the World Wide Web made such features a common part of the online experience. It was quickly abandoned as long as new, more advanced, markup languages for BBS were available and due to the emerging of Internet phenomenon that literally wiped out the BBS system of communication.
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