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An article about the oldest torrent and nary a magnet link in sight? Sure, there's the hash in the picture, but that's weak. What's the second oldest torrent?

An article about the oldest torrent and nary a magnet link in sight? Sure, there's the hash in the picture, but that's weak. What's the second oldest torrent? That's probably a better measure of the network health, because it doesn't get attention from articles about the oldest active torrent.

belter 5y ago
http://www.legittorrents.info/download.php?id=72c83366e95dd44cc85f26198ecc55f0f4576ad4&f=The%20Fanimatrix%20Run%20Program%20Full%20Release.torrent http://www.legittorrents.info/download.php?id=72c83366e95dd4...
em-bee 5y ago
What's the second oldest torrent? according to the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253 an article about the then believed to be oldest torrent, turned out to be a few months less old than this one, so we need to look for the third oldest now to get a good answer. on piratebay i found a torrent from 2008 that still works.
uniqueid 5y ago
The first torrent I, and probably quite a few others, ever downloaded was some Linux distro that Bram Cohen shared with the internet as a demo of the protocol.
- hedgehog 5y ago
  The first torrent I downloaded was one of the demo videos he put on his home page in 2001 (I think there were two). Never seen a reference to them since.
p1mrx 5y ago
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:72C83366E95DD44CC85F26198ECC55F0F4576AD4
- deleted 5y ago
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ivegotnoaccount 5y ago
BakaBT still has the three torrents uploaded in december 2003 that the article mentions, and they are still up and well. 25 more between Jan.1 and Apr.30 of 2004, all alive as well. Though I don't know if it is a good indicator. Even though, at the time, BakaBT was semi-private and not private, lessening the incentives to seed as one could download without limit by logging out, it still has a system that rewards seeding torrents with no/few seders.
mindslight 5y ago
Articles about torrents almost never contain a link to the torrent, even though magnet links are more authoritative than their own crappy https urls that can be arbitrarily changed. Journalists would rather mediate your access to source material than help you experience it directly. See also: Wikileaks.

belter 5y ago

http://www.legittorrents.info/download.php?id=72c83366e95dd44cc85f26198ecc55f0f4576ad4&f=The%20Fanimatrix%20Run%20Program%20Full%20Release.torrent http://www.legittorrents.info/download.php?id=72c83366e95dd4...

em-bee 5y ago

What's the second oldest torrent? according to the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253 an article about the then believed to be oldest torrent, turned out to be a few months less old than this one, so we need to look for the third oldest now to get a good answer. on piratebay i found a torrent from 2008 that still works.

uniqueid 5y ago

The first torrent I, and probably quite a few others, ever downloaded was some Linux distro that Bram Cohen shared with the internet as a demo of the protocol.

hedgehog 5y ago
The first torrent I downloaded was one of the demo videos he put on his home page in 2001 (I think there were two). Never seen a reference to them since.

p1mrx 5y ago

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:72C83366E95DD44CC85F26198ECC55F0F4576AD4

deleted 5y ago
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ivegotnoaccount 5y ago

BakaBT still has the three torrents uploaded in december 2003 that the article mentions, and they are still up and well. 25 more between Jan.1 and Apr.30 of 2004, all alive as well. Though I don't know if it is a good indicator. Even though, at the time, BakaBT was semi-private and not private, lessening the incentives to seed as one could download without limit by logging out, it still has a system that rewards seeding torrents with no/few seders.

mindslight 5y ago

Articles about torrents almost never contain a link to the torrent, even though magnet links are more authoritative than their own crappy https urls that can be arbitrarily changed. Journalists would rather mediate your access to source material than help you experience it directly. See also: Wikileaks.