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Although the phrase WebOS evokes different associations today, the idea was born more than a decade ago. WebOS was the brainchild of HyperOffice Inc., a startup founded in 1998 by a group of forward thinking college graduates who believed in the power of the internet as an application deployment platform. In 1998 HyperOffice launched mywebos.com, which was susequently changed to webos.com a year later.
The attempt of WebOS was to free users from a myriad desktop clients, and allow them to access their applications and information over the internet from any computer using a web browser. Accordingly, the WebOS API was published, which would allow third party developers to develop and deploy applications on webos.com. The WebOS API was an early predecessor to the now ubiquitous AJAX, and WebOS one of the earliest incarnations of the "cloud" and subscription licensing model for software deployment. However, some might say, the idea was ahead of its time, and HyperOffice ceased development on webos.com with the dot com burst of 2000.
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