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Definitely. Ian Clarke's Freenet has been around since March 2000 which is when I discovered Linux and Perl. The only thing I don't understand is why it was wr
by cutler 4y ago
Definitely. Ian Clarke's Freenet has been around since March 2000 which is when I discovered Linux and Perl. The only thing I don't understand is why it was written in Java instead of C/C++. Napster was also built with Java, however, so even slow as Java was back then it was still fast enough for building file-sharing networks.
- dale_glass 4y agoJava was a much better choice security-wise back in 2000. But I think it crippled adoption, it required far too much RAM for the computers of the time.