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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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[–] lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

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

Lol

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 7 points 11 hours ago

Gnutella is still active and easy to use.

[–] ElectricMachman@geostationary.orbiting.observer 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 12 points 11 hours 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

[–] MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago

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