Gnutella was a decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that achieved mainstream adoption with millions of concurrent users during the 2000s before fading as internet conditions changed. The protocol, which began as an internal AOL project that leaked publicly, functioned as a distributed search engine enabling users to query and download files directly from other computers on the network.
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Gnutella was a decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol that achieved mainstream adoption with millions of concurrent users during the 2000s before fading as internet conditions changed. The protocol, which began as an internal AOL project that leaked publicly, functioned as a distributed search engine enabling users to query and download files directly from other computers on the network.