Blossom Server

Blossom Server was an open source server for online multiplayer games. Developed by Jacob Grahn, it was released in 2009 and discontinued in 2011.
A spiritual successor known as Jiber was released in 2017."Faster Multiplayer with Jiber". Grahn's Blog. November 24, 2017. Blossom Server has also since been made available for download on GitHub.
==Name==
Blossom Server began as Multiplayer Awesome Server before being combined into MultiPlawesome when it was publicly announced."Dec 6 - testing testing 123". Jiggmin. 2008. Multi was dropped in the next revision, then it was further simplified into Plossom before receiving its final name."pr2 and pr3". Jiggmin. March 1, 2009.
==History==
Jiggmin first hinted at a "new multiplayer server" in a December 2008 blog before officially revealing it a few days later.Dec 1 - geek talk". Jiggmin. 2008. While not mentioned at the time, Jiggmin later noted Platform Racing 2's server served as the base for Blossom."PR2 Awesometin's Campaign" (8:42)
More news appeared the following year, the most major being that Platform Racing 3 would run off it. Other announcements included how any form of account info could be saved to a database and how it would be made of 2 servers to split the work."Blossom Queries". Jiggmin. May 5, 2009.
Blossom Server's website launched in April 2009, and the server itself was made downloadable near the end of May."Blossom Server". Newgrounds. April 4, 2009."Blossom Server". Jiggmin. May 22, 2009."News" - blossom-server.com 
Version 1.1 was released in July or August 2009, 1.2 in March 2010, and the final 1.3 revision between March and April 2011."Downloads" - blossom-server.com (August 2009 archive)"Downloads" - blossom-server.com (April 2010 archive)
==Discontinuation==
A bulletin was posted on Blossom Server's homepage in early 2011 saying a 2.0 version would be out soon. While the original remained downloadable in the meantime, it was no longer supported."blossom-server.com" (April 2011 archive) The site however shut down later that year for unknown reasons before it was released.
Blossom 2.0 was finished however, and people could get a copy of it by emailing Jiggmin. He still received email requests as late as 2017, which partially inspired him to make Jiber.
He later released Blossom Server on GitHub in 2020.
==Links==
*Blossom Server on GitHub
==References==
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