Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Gnutella is a peer-to-peer network protocol. Founded in 2000, it was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model. [1] In June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computers [2] increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006. [3]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
March – Gnutella becomes the first decentralized file sharing network with the release of a network client by Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft. [32] Like Napster, users could share large numbers of files at once, and search across the entire network for files. March – Phex (formerly FURI) Gnutella client released. [33] May – UMG v.
XoloX / ˈ z oʊ l ɒ k s / was a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file sharing application for Windows.It advertised having no spyware, adware, or hijackware.However, upon installation, it prompted the user to install programs suspected to be of that kind.
GnucDNA was a software library for building peer-to-peer applications. It provides developers with a common layer to create their own Gnutella or Gnutella2 client or network. As a separate component, GnucDNA can be updated independently of the client, passing down improvements to the applications already using it.
In November 2002, Michael Stokes announced the Gnutella2 protocol to the Gnutella Developers Forum. While some thought the goals stated for Gnutella2 are primarily to make a clean break with the gnutella 0.6 protocol and start over, so that some of gnutella's less clean parts would be done more elegantly and, in general, be impressive and desirable; other developers, primarily those of ...
Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. [3] Initially, Napster was envisioned by Fanning as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. [4]
This page was last edited on 22 January 2019, at 23:52 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.