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File sharing timeline

This article presents a timeline of events in the history of file sharing.

=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 infringements