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With bots that were widely available at the time, yes. +------------------------- + Dave Dennis + Seattle, WA + [email protected] + http://www.dmdennis.com +------------------------- On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bora Akyol wrote: > Sorry, was it possible to search for a file from > millions of storage > nodes > in IRC? > > Bora > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave Dennis [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:04 PM > > To: Bora Akyol > > Cc: 'Martin J. Levy'; 'Sean Donelan'; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the > > Benefits of P2P > > > > > > /dcc send <nick> filename > > > > peer to peer sharing, on irc, since 1991. > > > > Napster simply implemented the IRC protocol's DCC function, > > with a better command set / GUI. > > > > > > > > +------------------------- > > + Dave Dennis > > + Seattle, WA > > + [email protected] > > + http://www.dmdennis.com > > +------------------------- > > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bora Akyol wrote: > > > > > > > > I think we need to define what P2P is before we can address this. > > > > > > IMHO, P2P started with NAPSTER, yes before that there was > > WWW, gopher, > > > ftp, > > > files by email, bitnet, x/y/z modem, bbs (dating myself here), > > > but the large scale bandwidth usage that is seen started > > with NAPSTER. > > > > > > P2P I would define as distributed file sharing with > > database like search > > > capabilities. If you define it in this context, the bandwidth > > > characteristics of P2P is a lot closer (but on a higher > > scale) than the > > > bandwidth characteristics of a traditional web surfer. > > Hence, ADSL in > > > particular and asymmetric data comm in general hamper P2P. > > > > > > > > > Bora > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Martin J. Levy [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:13 PM > > > > To: Sean Donelan > > > > Cc: Bora Akyol; [email protected] > > > > Subject: RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the > > > > Benefits of P2P > > > > > > > > > > > > Sean, > > > > > > > > >There were lots of FTP mirrors around. > > > > >Every Sun workstation could have a Anonymous FTP. Of > > > > course, the problem > > > > >was every Sun workstation could be an Anonymous FTP :-) > > > > > > > > ... but you forgot to mention that filtering and firewalls > > > > and NAT were not in common use, hence everywhere was > > > > accessible from everywhere. P2P was all there was. > > > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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