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Usenet is probably the most decentralized medium out there. If I am not mistaken, this how the protocol worked ... data was posted to one server, then every oth
by foobar_ 7y ago
Usenet is probably the most decentralized medium out there. If I am not mistaken, this how the protocol worked ... data was posted to one server, then every other server replicated the data for each client to consume. Typically the server had like a years retention for binaries and an archive for text-based stuff.
Usenet is sorta like mastodon and Reddit combined.
- not2b 7y agoOriginally the UUCP protocol was used, and most Usenet sites had no network connection other than a dialup modem (other than perhaps a local Ethernet, if that). Retention time was only a few days: available disk was very limited. Later, the NNTP protocol was developed to transfer Usenet over TCP/IP, which is what you're thinking of.
- icedchai 7y agoThe UUCP protocol was still used to enable the replication he described. Also, it was not black and white, UUCP or NNTP. For example, for a while I ran a local NNTP server and received news through UUCP.
- basilgohar 7y agoBram Cohen explicitly cited Usenet's distributed model as the inspiration for Bittorrent's design.