Happy Birthday BitTorrent!
message boardon July 2, 2001.
The only reply he received on the board was Whats BitTorrent, Bram?
By utilizing peoples upload and download capacity at the same, he was just trying to enhance file transfers.
Popular files are distributed more rapidly, since BitTorrent users download and upload at the same time.
However, distribution slows down with other file-sharing technologies.
As a result, BitTorrent soon became accountable for a quarter of all Internet traffic.
After a few months, torrent sites began to come up frequently listing an extensive range of content.
However, the technology itself is neutral and used more broadly than most people understand.
The power of BitTorrent was also discovered by social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
However, the chances do not up there.
Cohen himself also worked hard on a live streaming implementation of BitTorrent.
It has allowed people worldwide to directly and easily share large files without the need for a central server.
Source:TorrentFreak
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