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Today in 2000 was the initial release of Gnutella, the first decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing system. It had several offshoots, such as Foxy, which is popular in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Peer-to-peer technology brought back the promise of democratization that was seen in the decentralized design of the Internet (routing). Its most iconic application was music file sharing.
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