Gene Kan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan) also had the same idea, until he shot himself while working on a distru

Gene Kan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan) also had the same idea, until he shot himself while working on a distrubted peer to peer real time search engine in front of his computer I think. I heard about him when I watched a documentary about Napster. No documentary about Gene Kan exists. He is virtually unknown but his work was an important contribution.