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In April 2001, Chip Morningstar began developing a Java-based (J2SE) web server which used two HTTP sockets to keep open two communications channels between the custom HTTP server he designed and a client designed by [[Douglas Crockford]]; a functioning demo system existed as of June 2001.<ref>{{citecitation web|url=http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/09/elko-ii-against-statelessness-or-everything-old-is-new-again/|title=Elko II: Against Statelessness (or, Everything Old Is New Again)|first=Chip|last=Morningstar|date={{date|2009-09-06|dmy}}|website=Habitat Chronicles}}</ref>{{self published inlineneeded|date=DecemberFebruary 20172020}} The server and client used a messaging format that the founders of State Software, Inc. assented to coin as [[JSON]] following Crockford's suggestion. The entire system, the client libraries, the messaging format known as JSON and the server, became the State Application Framework, parts of which were sold and used by Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, EDS and Volkswagen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/09/elko-i-the-life-death-life-death-life-death-and-resurrection-of-the-elko-session-sever/|title=Elko I: The Life, Death, Life, Death, Life, Death, and Resurrection of The Elko Session Server|first=Chip|last=Morningstar|date={{date|2009-09-05|dmy}}|website=Habitat Chronicles}}</ref>{{self publishedcitation inlineneeded|date=DecemberFebruary 20172020}}

In March 2006, [[software engineer]] Alex Russell coined the term Comet in a post on his personal blog.<ref name="alex_comet">Alex Russell (3 March 2006). “[http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545 Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812034003/http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545 |date=2008-08-12 }}”. Alex Russell’s blog. Retrieved 29 November 2007.</ref> The new term was a play on [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] ([[Ajax (cleanser)|Ajax]] and [[Comet (cleanser)|Comet]] both being common household cleaners in the USA).<ref>{{cite web