Where Have All the Files Gone?

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

Boj — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:18:14 GMT

IRC is not a thing of the past. It's still one of the mosr reliable file share techniques used. It just isn't user friendly.

I know this article is more geared towards 'let's think about the future'. My comment is more geared towards 'use the best resource available'.

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

IronMan77 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:08:13 GMT

Bittorrent FTW.

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

badbert — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:24:37 GMT

Hey Boj Lets not get every one "back" on IRC ok... (We already have too many leechers)

Like the man said, "While IRC is still popular for chat, its days of hosting files are gone."

Let's just shake our heads and agree with the man...

(wink, wink)

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

Tracer76 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:29:51 GMT

Before KAzza there was one that everyone knew about called Napster, at the time you did not have to sign up for any thing the prog was free to the pubic. That was the most well known P2P file sharing, ask Metallica. as seen here http://money.cnn.com/2001/07/12/news/napster/

BT is now more common do to hash files. and there is really nothing to it.

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

Tracer76 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:38:43 GMT

I forgot to add this as well

FTP ( File Transfer Protocol)

Very widely used to send large amount of files from one PC to the next with out a middle man except the ISP.

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

Alchemist — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:37:58 GMT

On the subject of IRC - I said what I said for a reason. You know why .. so do I .... badbert has the idea correct ..... I know you both have been around in the old days and well ... lets just leave it at that ...

I didn't include Napster because it was more music ... and I was going for multimedia in general ...

FTP is still around and great ... but not really a program or network ....

re: Where Have All the Files Gone?

Tracer76 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:26:09 GMT

Napster may have not included movies how ever it was the first primary target of RIAA. Also people did transfer appz as well. I remember because I have used it in the past.

FTP is still widely used today to transfer files. I know of a couple of FTP sites where a person can DL music, movies, appz ect.... Also if you were to ever look into Linux especially BDS its on a FTP server at Berkley amongst many other Distros. FTP is a network protocol we all know this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_timeline

http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Is-FTP-And-How-It-Works?&id=129576