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[True Savior]

I still remember my first torrent.

 

[itxaka]

Shame that it isn't used for more tech. If popcorn time showed us something is that the bittorrent protocol is great and it should be more widely adopted.

I heard that some telcos in Korea did a small tech test with it for internal stuff but I don't think it ever went further than that.

Shame.

 

[mjontrix]

Shame that it isn't used for more tech. If popcorn time showed us something is that the bittorrent protocol is great and it should be more widely adopted.

I heard that some telcos in Korea did a small tech test with it for internal stuff but I don't think it ever went further than that.

Shame.

While uploads are metered and speed limited compared to downloads worldwide it'll never happen. That day is coming through.

 

[show me your skeleton]

public statement: i do not know what a bittorrent is.

 

[Violet_0]

torrents, eh? Never heard of it >.>
<.<

 

[tonka]

public statement: i do not know what a bittorrent is.

Person A splits a file into three parts.
Part 1 is sent to person b, part 2 to person c, and part 3 to person d.
Persons b, c, and d now have two sources to get the whole file from, and one step later b, c, and d have two thirds of the file, and between any pair of them you can get the whole file.
One step later and all four people have the file, and any new people have four sources for the entire file.

 

[Spring Drive]

public statement: i do not know what a bittorrent is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

 

[Aeana]

Wow, I didn't realize it was so young, I started using it for various things in 2004. At the time I thought it was old tech, just one of those things that had been around since the start of the internet.

Reading this made me laugh out loud. I wish something like it was available back then, but using upstream like that on a dialup connection wouldn't have worked out anyway. In the early days of the Internet, even just downloading a 500k file was a craps shoot. There was no concept of resuming HTTP downloads, although downloads via Usenet could be resumed since they were downloaded in small chunks to begin with. That's why FTP existed, and FTP sharing was so popular.

 

[LordRaptor]

IIRc the first ever torrent was Blonds On Fire

http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/26/

Bram Cohen, the flaxen-haired hacker behind CodeCon, has
been beavering away on BITTORRENT, his P2P obsession,
fulltime and unpaid, for eight months. It's nearly ready to
ship at DEFCON next week, but it needs a mite more testing.
But there's a problem: how *do* you stress test a "swarming
downloader"? BitTorrent's a helper app that's designed to
allow servers to redistribute the download burden of
slashdottings amongst the audience. Download a big
BitTorrent-enabled file, and you'll simultaneously upload
chunks to your fellow downloaders. It's a nice practical
application of P2P. Except how do you simulate a
slashdotting? Especially when you've already shrugged off
one bona fide, slashdot.org appearence? Cohen sensibly
thought of two words here: free pr0n. So he's got a 700meg
porn file on his site he'd like you all to download. All of
you. Preferably at the same time.

 

[Lucumo]

That's why FTP existed, and FTP sharing was so popular.

That made me look up an old FTP indexer site and lo and behold, it's still up.

 

[Shadow780]

I don't even know what the client of choice is these days. uTorrent looks like it has gotten really shady.

qBittorrent for me, it's uT without all the bloat.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

qBittorrent for me, it's uT without all the bloat.

i had a very specific issue with this one that made me drop it, it was somehow forgetting and restarting all torrents and redownloading them all. if it didn't do that it would have been great. deluge is my goto although on windows you can very obviously see that linux is the leading platform, not the end of the world though and it does what it needs to.

 

[StoppedInTracks]

Cheers, BitTorrent!!!

Responsible for a total of 20TB downloads in the last 6 years for me.

still using the non-spyware utorrent 1.8.2 (build 15167).

And this.