P2P Failures
Added 2024-05-12 23:26:55 +0000 UTCTrying to get a local early 2000s P2P network going... without luck. Theoretically Limewire can behave in a serverless fashion (Napster's demise, more on that later), but no luck.
I've also tried running Openap, a reverse-engineered version of the Napster server from 2001, and Opennap NG, a fork of Opennap from ~2005. Napster required a centralized server to function, whereas Limewire and others were truly peer-to-peer via (I think?) Gnutella.
At any rate... I'm exploring the world of dial-up, and it's no fun to dial-up if you don't have something large to download and make the experience as excruciating as it was back then ๐
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haha amazing. I started college in 2006 and DC++ was *HUGE* -- all of us were just downloading entire discographies and seasons of whatever we wanted in what felt like seconds.
clabretro
2024-05-23 03:53:34 +0000 UTCIt wasn't until a couple of weeks ago that I remembered that Napster had a chat client and was originally IRC based. I remember during my freshman year of college (2001) first semester Napster obliterated the entire college campus's bandwidth immediately after move in. It took Resnet admins a couple weeks to get things under control. I think each dorm room had one port of 10/100 internet with a splitter so the room could have two computers with each getting 2 twisted pairs of ethernet. As the semester went on, people moved to using SMB shares (very occasionally), but mostly DC (direct connect) and the client DC++.
Will G.
2024-05-23 03:44:40 +0000 UTCYeah firewall totally off - and I can access port 8875 and 8888 on the server from the other machine. So I still haven't figured it out ha.
clabretro
2024-05-19 00:48:38 +0000 UTCHave you turned off the firewall on the XP machines? Those could be responsible for your misfortunes. That it works for localhost but not through the network is a clue pointing in that direction
Tobias Christiansen
2024-05-18 15:04:17 +0000 UTCsomeone's gotta do it ๐
clabretro
2024-05-13 22:41:46 +0000 UTCWhy do you hate yourself so? ๐
Maggie McFee
2024-05-13 21:26:27 +0000 UTCLong live IRC! Hello from someone still actively using it :)
Ross Nelson
2024-05-13 14:24:48 +0000 UTCHoly macaroni, Limewire and napster - These things... maybe you should try ed2k or IRC :D
Sgt. Silver
2024-05-13 08:30:58 +0000 UTCBoy do those take me back (to a time when I was a minor, and even if I wasnโt the statute of limitations has surely elapsed). ๐
Liquorist
2024-05-13 00:26:56 +0000 UTC"it's no fun to dial-up if you don't [...] make the experience as excruciating as it was back then" Agree to disagree. :P
Ross Nelson
2024-05-12 23:45:26 +0000 UTC
