Indy Project 

Indy is Open Source and developed solely by volunteers and with the help of its corporate sponsors.

Indy has had a long history that goes back to 1993. Indy has grown over the years and now is the largest, most comprehensive socket library available on any platform.

History

Here is a rough timeline of the history of the Indy Project. Some dates are estimates based on best recollections.

1993

• Initial socket library created in Visual Basic 3 by Chad Z. Hower, a.k.a Kudzu. Since VB does not support creation of objects, Winshoes is a collection of routines that return handles.

1995

• With the advent of Delphi, Winshoes is ported to Delphi and the Visual Basic version is deprecated.

1997

• Winshoes is open sourced.

2000

• Winshoes is renamed to Internet Direct (Indy for short) as it prepares to become cross platform.
• Indy joins Project Jedi.
• Indy welcomes Nevrona Designs as a corporate sponsor

2001

• Borland licenses Indy for inclusion in Delphi 6. Indy is later also included in C++ Builder 6, Kylix, and Delphi for .Net.

2002

• Indy Experts support program announced.
• The book Indy in Depth is released.

2003

• Indy is ported to Delphi for .Net
• Indy welcomes Atozed Software as a corporate sponsor

2004

• Indy is made available to the .net community.