-T- Member Posted January 13, 2003 Member Share Posted January 13, 2003 DUBLIN (AFP) - A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line. Full Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 Thats pretty sweet. has dvd intergration... now thats awesome. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 he needs to release that asap. preferably free ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 He has potential to be the next Bill Gates. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 .. of course he would have to go to Harvard and then drop out the first year. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacificAk Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 read the story.. it says he wants to join Harvard!!! & then wanna start his own computer company... soo.. we r going to have another B.G. afterall!!!! :D :jump: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 jeez, if these claims are serious then this kid has hit on somehting that thousands of highly paid "experts" have completely missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 hella compression...or its bs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 ill believe it when i see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 ill believe it when i see it. that's what i was thinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 i think it's BS. Media integration? i think he simply put the windows media player activex plugin and that's all. About the browser speed.. i dont think he did anything spectacular. he probably used something like multi-part downloading like flashget/dap plus do.. total bollox... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenMaster Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 ill believe it when i see it. that's what i was thinking [sarcasm] Maybe he's a Ralien. Makes a whole lot of fuss. Draws media attention. Then doesn't show anyproof. Anyone consider that while running the demo he wasn't using a 56k line but a 256K ISDN Line? [/sarcasm] Let's see....so he was about 14 when he came up w/ the idea himself and started coding. That's 1000 lines of code for 18 months assuming no big mistakes were made and having to go back and fix them. Now 1000 lines of code, to think through type up say it takes about 1 hour which would mean he spent 780 hours on the computer or 32.5 days (24/7) of coding. Somehow, if his way is so revolutionary, surely someone would already have thought about it. I'm not even accounting for any brainstorming, time to learn any computer language, etc. Either its going to die a fast death or he's going to Harvard. I don't think he's going to Harvard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techquilla Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 hhmmmm......doubtful.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 that is a load of bull, just based on the ammount of lines of code. nt was 3 million lines of code, so I highly doubt one kid did 780k... plus, i'm sure there's a fair ammount of caching going on. he says it crashes if he turns it up to a seven-fold boost. Yeah, that sounds like multi-part to me. and that DOESN'T help a 56k modem worth crap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 W00t if its true :) And hes a turk too :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 I'd love it if he was some sort of reclusive geek who really did write 780,000 lines of code and the browser does exactly what it says. Just to see what all the sceptics say ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted January 13, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2003 As toxikk said, I'll believe it when i see it. Just thought this would also be interesting, I found this interesting app the other day, http://www.surfision.com/, Well, someone told me it speeds up your connection, even if you're on 56k, so I thought must be another of one of those cliche speed-boosting apps , i said hell I'd just try it anyways, and it turns out it actually does have a small noticable increase, it also relies on some kind of a compression technology, on their (server) side. Try it out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 I'd love it if he was some sort of reclusive geek who really did write 780,000 lines of code and the browser does exactly what it says. Just to see what all the sceptics say ;) Yeah, all the sceptics would be: :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 780000 lines..god damn..doesnt the kid have school? a life? .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrope Posted January 13, 2003 Share Posted January 13, 2003 Thats intense. I want to see this. If its true, I will be using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-T- Member Posted January 13, 2003 Author Member Share Posted January 13, 2003 :cry: it makes the front page n i get no recognition :cry: ah well at least i know i posted it 1st :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Adnan says a six-fold increase is about the maximum practical boost."At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six." sounds like regular gzip comression :rolleyes: or if not gzip something similar..all media player and dvd integration, big freakin deal. how often do you watch videos WHILE browsing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissssssss Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Surely changing the server end would be the only way to increase the speed of downloading, don't really see how a different browser could increase the speed webpages load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruairi Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 :D Check this out! A 16 year-old Irish school boy has written a Web browser called XWEBS. It's 6 times faster then IE, Netscape and all the rest. He won the young scientist award for his school in Ireland, a highly regarded prize. He seems to be a bright boy because he has patented the ideas :devil: and has asperations to go to Havard University. Sadly he's not releasing it to the public and is in talks with companies... so looks like he has sold out. Maybe school needs to teach the benefits of Open-Source at an early age :D http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/...p-5244591c.html or http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2003/01/...perbrowser.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason the Eighty Eighth Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 personally, i don't believe in this nonsense. how can you view webpages faster than what your internet line can physically handle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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