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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    John Backus‏ @backus Jun 14

    What was your primary file sharing app after Napster and before BitTorrent?

    6:49 PM - 14 Jun 2018
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      1. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 14

        Respond to this if it wasn’t any of these. Most likely you used a fork of one of them or at least we’re on the same network

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      2. Franco & HostFat‏ @HostFat Jun 14
        Replying to @backus

        Strange result to me. eDonkey / eMule were widely used at the time in Spain, Italy, Germany and generally in Europe.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 14
        Replying to @HostFat

        This is a big reason I ask. Most people I know used Limewire but that’s not consistent with usage stats AFAICT

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      2. Carl Zulauf  🌹‏ @existensil Jun 14
        Replying to @backus

        Ran an FTP server with an upload ratio. Discovered a lot of great music that way and got endless laughs from the viruses and random files people would upload to increase their download allowance.

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 14
        Replying to @existensil

        Nice. What was the rough time range you were doing this?

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      4. Carl Zulauf  🌹‏ @existensil Jun 14
        Replying to @backus

        It was both pre-Napster, during Napster when it would go down, and then again post-Napster. Usually advertised on IRC.

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      1. Andreas‏ @Cheeselund Jun 16
        Replying to @backus

        Those times! Kids playing around with their computers making the big bosses really angry. 😇😂 Funny the same people, just a little older, are still playing around making even bigger bosses angry with Bitcoin and Crypto. I just love thus revolution!

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      1. rogerclark‏ @rogerclark Jun 14
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        DC++ and private FTP servers

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      1. Autumnal Misha‏ @drethelin Jun 15
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        I used WinMX

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      1. Jon Hearty  🙊 🙉 🙈‏ @jonhearty Jun 15
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        DC++ at @ucsantabarbara 04-06

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      1. Justin Poirier‏ @tokenizedcap Jun 14
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        Soulseek

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        Soulseek

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