Bittorrent
September 16th, 2006
BitTorrent was written by Bram Cohen who wanted to create a program which would download files faster and better than the others.
Interface cannot be described. It is just one, small, ascetic window. The idea behind the network is far more than original: no browser, just .torrent files available on various websites. All we do is simply download the tiny .torrent file (a few kB) and run the program which, in its turn, using the main server (so called “tracker”) searches for all people who have the file. What we download is divided in small pieces, just like in many other programs. Once such a piece is downloaded to our machine, it is automatically shared with others.
