And justice for all?
IDEA No 62
PEER-TO-PEER
In 1999 Shawn Fanning created a downloadable program that allowed him to share music with his friends. He called it Napster. Within days the 19-year-old had a lot of friends – 1,500 of them. He had created the first peer-to-peer (P2P) network.
Downloaded, the story of Napster, was released in 2013.
A computer network that allowed the sharing of resources without the need for a central server was a radical departure from the model that had dominated the computer industry for 50 years. Shawn’s uncle John Fanning invested in the fledgling company and Shawn’s friend Sean Parker committed himself full time ...
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