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1970S

1978

--- February, the first BBS ( CBBS ) is born.

1980S

1985

--- October, FTP protocol specifications are published as an RFC.

1990S

1990

--- November, Tim Berners-Lee publishes a proposal for the World Wide Web and writes the first Web page.

1999

--- Napster is released. (Birth of Peer-to-peer file sharing systems)

--- December, lawsuit are filed against Napster by several major recording companies

2000S

2000

---March, First Gnutella client is published. Gnutella-network, being the first decentralised file sharing system, is born. (''Note that it is decentralized only after initialization.'')

---September, PornDigger! beta 1.0 is published to registered beta testers, introducing use of thumbnails in p2p filesharing.

2001

---March, FastTrack protocol and Kazaa are introduced

---July, Napster shut down its entire network

---October, First public version of Mutella Gnutella client is published

---November, GNUnet is first publicly announced

2002

---February, BitTorrent debuts at CodeCon

---November, Gnutella2 protocol is announced

2003

---November, The source code of Winny is confiscated by the Kyoto Police in the late November or soon after

2004

---May, Winny developer Isamu Kaneko is arrested for suspected conspiracy to commit copyright violation

2005

---June, United States Supreme Court judges Grokster developers being guilty of encouraging their users to Copyright Infringement s

---September, WinMX network shuts down after a Cease And Desist letter from the RIAA