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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
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It is all ed2k links. Unfortunately modern clients for ed2k are quite lacking
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
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or was it Windows hiding file extensions by default and you downloaded a .mp3.exe file?
Isn't it just great how a decision made by some genius in Microsoft decades ago caused so much confusion and mess. Even on Windows 11 the default is to hide extensions, because, geez, wouldn't want to confuse people with change after decades of it being like that. Although, was the hiding something that the Mac introduced? The idea of the last part of the filename (after the period) determining what program is launch…
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or was it Windows hiding file extensions by default and you downloaded a .mp3.exe file?
Isn't it just great how a decision made by some genius in Microsoft decades ago caused so much confusion and mess. Even on Windows 11 the default is to hide extensions, because, geez, wouldn't want to confuse people with change after decades of it being like that. Although, was the hiding something that the Mac introduced? The idea of the last part of the filename (after the period) determining what program is launch…
Hot take: the simple reason Gnutella declined is that it was replaced by Bittorrent.
That’s what Limewire used? It definitely came pre-bootstrapped then.
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…
I would read a follow-up about LimeWire's dynamic query routing. I enjoyed the writing style very much and now I'm reading Rick's other articles on topics that normally wouldn't interest me. Thanks Rick!