File Sharing Timeline Article Index for
File
Shopping
Timeline
Website Links For
File Sharing
 

Information About

File Sharing Timeline





1970S



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