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| x Napster |
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Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. Its technology allowed people to easily share their MP3 files...
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| x EDonkey network |
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The eDonkey network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of said files. In...
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| x Kademlia |
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Kademlia is a distributed hash table for decentralized peer to peer computer networks designed by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières . It specifies the structure of the network and the exchange of information through node lookups. Kademlia nodes...
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| x Bonjour |
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Bonjour, formerly Rendezvous, is Apple Inc.'s trade name for its implementation of Zeroconf, a service discovery protocol. Bonjour locates devices such as printers, as well as other computers, and the services that those devices offer on a local...
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| x Overnet |
Overnet was a decentralized peer-to-peer computer network, usually used for sharing large files (e.g., movies and CD images). Overnet implements the Kademlia algorithm. In late 2006, Overnet and all Overnet-owned resources were taken down as a...
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| x Gnutella |
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Gnutella (pronounced /nuːˈtɛlə/ with a silent g, but frequently /ɡnuːˈtɛlə/) is a file sharing network. In late 2007, it was the most popular file sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40%. In June 2005,...
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| x BitTorrent |
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BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounts for approximately 27-55% of all...
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| x FastTrack |
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FastTrack is a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol that was used by the Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh, and Morpheus file sharing programs. FastTrack was the most popular file sharing network in 2003, and used mainly for the exchange of music mp3 files. The network...
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| x JXTA |
JXTA (Juxtapose) is an open source peer-to-peer protocol specification begun by Sun Microsystems in 2001. The JXTA protocols are defined as a set of XML messages which allow any device connected to a network to exchange messages and collaborate...
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| x GNUnet |
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GNUnet is a free software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. The framework offers link encryption, peer discovery and resource allocation.
The primary codebase is written in C, but with Freeway there is an effort to produce a...
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| x Gnutella2 |
Gnutella2 (G2) is a peer-to-peer protocol developed mainly by Michael Stokes and released in 2002. While inspired by the Gnutella protocol, G2 shares little of its design with the exception of its connection handshake. It adopts an extensible binary...
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| x Content addressable network |
The Content Addressable Network (CAN) is a distributed, decentralized P2P infrastructure that provides hash table functionality on an Internet-like scale. CAN was one of the original four distributed hash table proposals, introduced concurrently...
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| x Pastry |
Pastry is an overlay and routing network for the implementation of a distributed hash table similar to Chord. The key-value pairs are stored in a redundant peer-to-peer network of connected Internet hosts. The protocol is bootstrapped by supplying...
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| x Chord project |
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Chord is a peer-to-peer lookup algorithm for finding a single node in a structured network of peers as a rendezvous point for a given key, which is an index for a desired entity of information. It is one of the four original distributed hash table...
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| x Tapestry |
Tapestry is a distributed hash table which provides a decentralized object location, routing, and multicasting infrastructure for distributed applications. It is composed of a peer-to-peer overlay network offering efficient, scalable, self-repairing...
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| x Koorde |
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In peer-to-peer networks, Koorde is a Distributed hash table (DHT) system based on the Chord DHT and the De Bruijn graph (De Bruijn sequence). Inheriting the simplicity of Chord, Koorde meets O(log n) hops per node (where n is the number of nodes in...
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| x Freenet |
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Freenet is free software which lets you
publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of
censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely
decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
Without...
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| x Domain name system |
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most...
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| x Usenet |
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It evolved from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.
Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979. Users read and post public...
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| x Kad Network |
The Kad network is a peer-to-peer (P2P) network which implements the Kademlia P2P overlay protocol. The majority of users on the Kad Network are also connected to servers on the eDonkey network, and Kad Network clients typically query known nodes on...
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| x MANOLITO |
MANOLITO or MP2P is the internal protocol name for the proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing network developed by Pablo Soto, first used by Blubster, and later Piolet. MANOLITO uses UDP on port 41170 for search routing and is based on Gnutella. In...
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| x Krawler Networks |
Krawler Networks is an Arlington,Virginia based information technology company founded in 2005. Krawler's first product was a p2p based Social Network named krawlerx which later became a popular open-source project. Krawler later launched its second...
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| x OpenNAP |
OpenNap (1999-2001) was a protocol which allowed transfer of files similar to Napster (1999-2001) built around the premise of sharing all types of files. However due to the RIAA, it was discontinued.
The original Napster peer-to-peer file sharing...
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| x ANts P2P |
ANts P2P is an anonymous peer-to-peer open source file sharing software written in Java. The project was launched in 2004, and the code is licensed under the GPL.
ANts P2P encrypts all traffic sent or received from others and proxies traffic between...
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| x Ares Galaxy |
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Ares Galaxy is an open source peer-to-peer file sharing application that uses its own decentralized supernode/leaf network. It was spun-off from the Gnutella network in 2002, and is currently hosted on SourceForge.net. Ares Galaxy has a simple,...
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| x Pichat |
Pichat (pitʃæt) is a chat software and a protocol for information exchange in a peer-to-peer network. A Pichat application typically is client and server at once and can serve a variety of protocols and formats (such as text and XML). It is...
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