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Yeah, Bittorrent is actually getting fairly old compared to many other technologies in use today; it's _older than_ Windows XP. :D

• cm2187 7y ago
  A newcommer compared to nntp, which arguably is a kind of p2p network!
  • _Codemonkeyism 7y ago
    Isn't nntp more of a store and forward network?
  • josteink 7y ago
    nntp relied on central servers which clients connected to, so not fully decentralized. That the servers did inter-server replication and forwarding doesn’t really change that.
    • ptman 7y ago
      Federation (email, nntp, matrix) is decentralization, but it's not p2p.
    • cm2187 7y ago
      But the servers are p2p between them, i.e. they propagate the content to the other servers. If you take down one of them, you can still connect to any other server to get the same data. Keeping in mind this is 1980s technology, it looks pretty close to p2p to me.