Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

(rickcarlino.com)

40 points | by rickcarlino 4 days ago ago

5 comments

  • itsthecourier 2 days ago

    just reading gnutella triggered a really old memory of times when Ares, Limewire and eMule where places to try your luck getting mp3s and software

    • felooboolooomba 12 minutes ago

      Back in the day as a teenager. Downloaded mp3 that was labelled with title and artist and .mp3 extension. It wasn't. What it was caused me to wipe my hard drive and reinstall everything. Fkuc that shit. Apart from that, many good stuff was had.

      • leeoniya a few seconds ago

        or was it Windows hiding file extensions by default and you downloaded a .mp3.exe file?

  • bellowsgulch 2 days ago

    That’s what Limewire used? It definitely came pre-bootstrapped then.

    • rickcarlino 2 days ago

      Are you asking if lime wire used Gnutella Web Cache for bootstrapping? I’m not sure. GWebCache is one of many possible ways to boot strap, and I have not run lime wire in over a decade. I saw that GTKGnutella moved off of GWebCache sometime ago and uses some sort UDP based tool now. I am fairly certain that Shareaza still uses it because I see those results come up in my Web cache pull from time to time. I have seen a few advertisements from lime wire fork projects as well.