11 Facts About Hotline Communications

Hotline Communications Limited was a software company founded in 1997, based in Toronto, Canada, with employees in the United States and Australia.

At its peak, Hotline Communications received millions of dollars in venture capital funding, grew to employ more than fifty people, served millions of users, and won accolades at trade shows and in newspapers and computer magazines around the world.

Hotline Communications eventually attracted more of an "underground" community, which saw it as an easier to use successor to the Internet Relay Chat community.

In 2001 Hotline Communications lost the bulk of its VC funding, and went out of business later that month.

Hotsprings Inc has since abandoned development of the Hotline Communications Connect software suite; the last iteration of Hotline Communications Connect was released in December 2003.

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Hotline Communications was designed in 1996 and known as "hotwire" by Australian programmer Adam Hinkley, then 17 years old, as a classic Mac OS application.

The source code for the Hotline Communications applications was based on a class library, "AppWarrior", which Hinkley wrote.

In 1997, Hotline Communications won a "Best of the Show" award from one of the award ceremonies concurrent with the Boston MacWorld Expo.

However, a few months after Hinkley moved to Canada, he and his colleagues at Hotline Communications got into a major disagreement and Hinkley left the firm, encrypting source files for Hotline on Hotline Communication's computers, thus crippling the company.

The Hotline Communications protocol was a binary protocol which accounted for its high speed efficient transfers in the days when most internet users still used modems and dialup.

Hotline Communications Connect consisted of three applications, distributed separately :.