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

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      3rd party companies building on top of your protocol help you find product market fit. Normal startups iterate sequentially; fat protocols can iterate in parallel 🐻 BearShare built features that Limewire users wanted like video preview 🐴 eMule improved on bad UI of eDonkeypic.twitter.com/G0CjFBK3NG

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    2. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      Decentralized fat protocols out live the companies that create them • Nullsoft launched Gnutella protocol but Limewire/BearShare built the apps we all know. Forks like FrostWire live on eternally • OSS eMule built on eDonkey's networks after they died and even improved on it

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    3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      While fat protocols compete, 3rd party apps can unify and create a better experience. Popular file sharing app "Shareaza" searched EVERYTHING by implementing Limewire, Kazaa, eDonkey, and BitTorrent. Open source giFT project provided generalized backend for thispic.twitter.com/ub0hoW0oNF

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    4. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      Third party apps provide continuity for users by switching protocols if it makes sense. When FrostWire (fork of Limewire) realized BitTorrent was the winning protocol, they added support. Now it is JUST a BitTorrent client. Users don't care about protocols!pic.twitter.com/QlZArmOw99

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    5. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      If fat protocols are sufficiently general then thin applications can find product market fit by specializing. PopcornTime (backed by BitTorrent) is a great example where it specializes both by content (movies) and mode of consumption (streaming only)pic.twitter.com/AELPAspUc6

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    6. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      Decentralized protocols evolve under collaboration+consensus and fork under contention • Gnutella evolved from 0.4 → 0.6 via community consensus. Took years • eDonkey kept Overnet protocol proprietary. eMule community says fine & builds "Kad network" (fork by clone). Kad wonpic.twitter.com/PB3SvYvSJ9

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    7. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 6

      When we say a protocol forks, we're really talking about communities forking. Tons of developers worked on Gnutella 0.6 (protocol for Limewire, BearShare, etc). When a random dev proclaimed he designed "Gnutella 2.0" on his own w/o peer review, people were PISSED. Boycott!pic.twitter.com/rWBEYLDXG8

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    8. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jul 20
      Replying to @backus

      Oh, yes, I was pissed — I still remember that clearly :-) — I still have the domain http://gnutella2.info  which I used to correct information about Gnutella, though it nowadays only hosts my whitelist-based restricted Freenet inproxy: http://d6.gnutella2.info/freenet/ 

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    9. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 20
      Replying to @ArneBab

      You're a goldmine (I'm loving your responses to all of my tweets). Can you DM me in a bit so I can bug you about more history stuff and Freenet? I love that YOU remember Gnutella2 because I emailed Vinnie about it and he literally didn't even remember what Gnutella2 was!

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    10. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jul 20
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      I was there, I wrote about it, and I was moderator of the Gnutella Development Forum for several years — back when my Java skills were still close nil; and when I talk about the iceberg of complexity of which a user only sees the tip, the prototypical user is me from 2003 :-)

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jul 20
      Replying to @ArneBab

      Amazing

      3:18 PM - 20 Jul 2018
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        1. ((λ()'Dr.ArneBab))‏ @ArneBab Jul 20
          Replying to @backus

          Besides: Thank you for prompting me to share this. I realize that this is far less widely known that it could be — cultural archives failing … here’s a final point for today (it's almost 02:00 over here): http://www.draketo.de/light/english/generation-cultural-freedom …

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