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Well, it's like saying people download stuff "from bittorrent." It's like saying you download music from TCP. How people talk: "Where did you get this music?"
by seiji 11y ago
Well, it's like saying people download stuff "from bittorrent." It's like saying you download music from TCP.
How people talk: "Where did you get this music?" "Oh, I got it from bittorrent."
People aren't nuanced enough to know the difference between an indexing service, an application, a protocol, and various implementations or instances of all combinations thereof.
- sushid 11y agoBut there is/was an app called Bittorrent, right? I think that might add to the confusion for the typical layperson.
- userbinator 11y agoThere's also uTorrent, xTorrent, and a variety of others with names ending in *torrent. "I torrented it" was, and might still be, quite a common expression because of that. Probably for the same reason "I HTTP'd it" never became established because people were already using their browsers for regular downloads over HTTP.