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Origins of decentralized computing
The origins of decentralized computing originate from the work of David Chaum.
During 1979 he conceived the first concept of a decentralized computer system known as Mix Network. It enabled for an anonymous email communications network which decentralized the authentication of the messages in a protocol which would become the precursor to Onion Routing, the protocol of the TOR browser. Through this initial development of an anonymous communications network, David Chaum applied his Mix Network philosophy to design the world's first decentralized payment system and patented it in 1980 (Patent US4529870). Later in 1982, for his PhD dissertation, he wrote about the need for decentralized computing services in the paper Computer Systems Established, Maintained and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups.
- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/peer-to-peer/059600110X/ch01.html
The Internet is a shared resource, a cooperative network built out of millions of hosts all over the world. Today there are more applications than ever that want to use the network, consume bandwidth, and send packets far and wide. Since 1994, the general public has been racing to join the community of computers on the Internet, placing strain on the most basic of resources: network bandwidth. And the increasing reliance on the Internet for critical applications has brought with it new security requirements, resulting in firewalls that strongly partition the Net into pieces. Through rain and snow and congested Network Access Providers (NAPs), the email goes through, and the system has scaled vastly beyond its original design.
- https://p2pfoundation.net
- https://torrentfreak.com/the-history-of-filesharing-120422/
- A Brief History of P2P Content Distribution, in 10 Major Steps
- https://www.lifewire.com/definition-of-p2p-818026
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_file_sharing
- https://learnoutlive.com/a-brief-history-of-peer-to-peer-networks/
- https://www.geek.com/gadgets/limewire-napster-the-pirate-bay-a-brief-history-of-file-sharing-1359473/
https://datapath.io/resources/blog/the-history-of-border-gateway-protocol/
- ARPANet 1969 ( or 1971 )
- USENET, 1979 - Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
- Gateway-to-gateway protocol (GGP) 1982 - its only focus was routing based on the number of AS hops. GGP focused on routing internet transit the fewest number of autonomous system (AS) hops to a destination.
- 1984
- FidoNet
- Exterior gateway protocol (originally discussed in 1982) a tree-like distance-vector internet routing protocol.
- Cisco Systems founded
- 1985 - The National Science Foundation begins to support advanced research and education in networking.
- Between the developments of Usenet in 1979 to the 1990’s, files sharing were primarily done through the use of bulletin board based systems.
- 1986 - The first super computers are connected to the internet. The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) initiated TCP/IP connections and operations. This becomes the first form of the internet backbone.
The events through the 1980s expose the need for an all-encompassing internet routing protocol. This is exactly when BGP is developed. On three sheets of paper.
- 1988 - Internet routing (BGP) -RFC 1058. This is the oldest distance-vector routing protocol in its modern context. This begins to lay the groundwork for BGP.
- August 1989 - Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- 2009 - Bitcoin
- 2011 - Namecoin
- 2012 - Diaspora
- Filecoin
- Swarm
- Sia
- Storj
- Maidsafe
- https://wiki.debian.org/eDonkey
- aMule -aMule is a peer to peer file sharing application that works with the eDonkey computer network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client. It is based on the eMule sourcecode, and evolved from ?LMule and xMule. It is now the Linux client on the eMule links section on their webpage. As eMule, aMule is open source software released under the GNU ?GeneralPublicLicense.
- http://www.emule-project.net eMule project - or http://emule.sf.net eMule on Sourceforge
- http://www.freemule.net/ Freemule.net - Website with the latest news on eMule's legal actions
- http://www.amule.org aMule's homepage - or aMule on ?BerliOS
- http://wiki.amule.org/ aMule Wiki- Wiki of the aMule Project