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Gnutella Explanation - A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)
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Welcome to my overly enthusiastic love letter to Gnutella.

Despite its meteoric rise and its role as a driving force behind the file-sharing phenomenon of the 2000s, Gnutella has gone mostly forgotten. Some of that is because it was a component technology hidden beneath more visible projects like LimeWire.

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

This was a really cool read. It's just missing one detail: is the protocol named after the delicious hazelnut spread... and if so, why?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    From Wikipedia:

    The name is a portmanteau of GNU and Nutella, the brand name of an Italian hazelnut flavored spread: supposedly, Frankel and Pepper ate a lot of Nutella working on the original project, and intended to license their finished program under the GNU General Public License. Gnutella is not associated with the GNU project[15] or GNU's own peer-to-peer network, GNUnet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella#History

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