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gonesilentyesterday at 9:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

It took a ton of work to keep the network clean. I did the gnutella.wego site back in the day. Gnutella was made when napster had 50 users and we all told him he was fcked. So gnutella was made to not use servers. Justin gave napster the code for song length and such to integrate with Napster.


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threeioyesterday at 11:32 PM

I remember the early gnutella releases and we'd use the search history as a chatroom for the first like 24 hours before it got too saturated ;)

rickcarlinoyesterday at 9:43 PM

Have you blogged about this or written it down? I would love to hear more about this piece of history and it seems that the history is slowly fading.

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