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Gnutella Explanation - A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Welcome to my overly enthusiastic love letter to Gnutella.

Despite its meteoric rise and its role as a driving force behind the file-sharing phenomenon of the 2000s, Gnutella has gone mostly forgotten. Some of that is because it was a component technology hidden beneath more visible projects like LimeWire.

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[–] 13 points 5 months ago

Gnutella is still active and easy to use.

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You typed something into a search box, like "LinkinPark.mp3.exe".

    Lol

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    • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Thanks! It's very hard to find the protocol info.

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This was a really cool read. It's just missing one detail: is the protocol named after the delicious hazelnut spread... and if so, why?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    From Wikipedia:

    The name is a portmanteau of GNU and Nutella, the brand name of an Italian hazelnut flavored spread: supposedly, Frankel and Pepper ate a lot of Nutella working on the original project, and intended to license their finished program under the GNU General Public License. Gnutella is not associated with the GNU project[15] or GNU's own peer-to-peer network, GNUnet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella#History

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    [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    wasn’t the Chaos Communication Camp 2003 the largest Gnutella node ever?

    also: Drink more water!

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Nice read and I agree with it. I was a big LimeWire user when it was popular and I don't think I was aware that Gnutella powered it.

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