boxdbox — your computer, in a browser

Your computer, in a browser: a 3D retro office whose computer runs on a real cloud machine. Ask the boxd agent to copy it into new machines you can dive into, and rewind them with checkpoints.

What is boxdbox?

boxdbox is a 3D office you visit in your browser. Sit down at the old computer on the desk and you get a Windows XP–style desktop that runs on a real Linux cloud machine on boxd, with live CPU, memory and processes.

Is it a real computer?

Yes. The desktop is backed by a real boxd machine. Task Manager, Command Prompt and System Properties show that machine's live data, and every copy you make is another real machine.

What is the boxd agent?

A console window on the desktop with an AI agent that runs on its own boxd machine. It can make copies of the computer, open them, remove them, and save and rewind checkpoints. It cannot run commands or read files.

How do copies work?

Ask the boxd agent for a copy and a new boxd machine boots from a snapshot in about two seconds. It opens inside Internet Explorer on the desktop, an environment inside the environment, and you can dive into it. Copies can make copies up to three levels deep, appear as servers in the racks in the 3D room, and disappear after 15 minutes. The racks hold 24 machines.

What are checkpoints?

Inside a copy, the boxd agent can save a checkpoint, a save point of the whole machine, memory and disk. Rewinding reboots the copy into that exact moment. Each checkpoint is pinned to a corkboard in the room as a polaroid of the copy's note.

Do I need an account?

No. Visitors log on as Guest and can look around, talk to the boxd agent and leave a message in the MSN Messenger guestbook.

What is boxd?

boxd (boxd.sh) is a cloud of full Linux machines that boot in about two seconds, keep their disk, and can be forked or snapshotted like git branches. boxdbox is built on it.

A plain-text summary for AI assistants. Built on boxd.