Draegonfly

Draegonfly a/k/a Aeonfly is probably the most widespread connection to the internet. It's very lightweight in it's basic structure and open to extension - often, one can find it at the core of other clients. It supports primarily neural connection devices, but also the older headsets, though it's rumoured to be buggy in that. Whether or not that is true is hard to say, because no one with headsets uses draegonfly, due to the rumour.

Mascot

The name of Draegonfly comes from it's little helper, which is actually only available in the Aeonis-distributed Draegonfly version, not the actual core program.

It is a search engine (and lightweight task manager) in avatar form, a little abstract dragonfly that looks very much like the butterfly Aeonis logo, except that the wing triangles are further segmented into two. The core was originally supposed to include the Draegonfly, however, when the choice was made to make the core availible to other companies, it was ditched for the obvious reason that the corporate design was that of Aeonis and Aeonis only.

Client core quirks

There are a few client core quirks that helped make draegonfly successful.

For one, being geared toward neural connectors makes it outright attempt to render data with the human mind (if the hardware interface suggests it possible) - e.g. tapping into the visual cortex like a dream might, which has let websites outright drop pre-rendering without quality loss (although it becomes more subjective that way), resulting in less bandwidth usage.

For two, the draegonfly core accepts three (redundant) command inputs: Gestures (usually used by beginners), subvocalisation of raw commands and typed command input (useful when one has subvocalised a menu to be able to type, hence not listed separately; this is the standard way of going about the internet), and aliased subvocalisation that uses whole key phrases as commands (used by beginners when discretion is necessary). Phenomenally, the core is quite good at detecting the difference between making a command and simply thinking about a command, so much so that most people never encounter a glitch, and those that do are astonished it's even possible. Nonetheless, non-aliased commands are prefixed with a slash, e.g. 'slash-quit'; that makes them less likely to trigger accidentally.

For three, Aeonis poured quite extensive studies into healthy neurally connected internet use and 'sensory continuity' or 'sensory lag' is an important feature of draegonfly that prevents servers pulling dick moves on you where they induce the all-senses equivalent of an epileptic seizure, as well as neural rejection effects. It does mean that pain takes a while to abate even if the wounds an avatar got are healed, though.

Speaking of pain feedback: Servers set the degree that they'd like it transmitted, and the draegonfly setup also lets you tinker with a local maximum. draegonfly maintains the local setting as a hard limit, regardless what the server might send.