winmx's history?

[chamcham]

hi everyone,

i'm very interested in file sharing/and the programs, especially winmx, cause i got tons of files from there. but...where can i find the history of winmx and file sharing programs? what's the first one? and how many file sharing programs are running now?

thanks!

[serrebi101]

http://www.filenavigator.de/gnox/sites/winmx/history.htm
From looking at the page, they got the news from now, to the begining, I think oct 2000, take a look, kinda interesting.
This is what you wanted right??

[endersgame21]

Welcome to Zeropaid chamcham.
Well, I don't know too much about WinMX but I know some stuff about the history of filesharing. I am not going to go too much into detail
Filesharing is basically you downloading files off of other people and they are uploading files from you.
Before there were any p2p apps you could download files from ftp sites and you could use IRC to share files. (They still exist today)
Then came along Napster, the first p2p app and is considered the grandfather of filesharing. It was extremely popular and was revolutionary. It made it a lot easier than the ftp sites and IRC. Also, the government was starting to crack down on some popular ftp sites. It is similar to filesharing apps today like WinMX except for it was missing a few features like muli-source downloading and resumable downloads. But it got shut down by the RIAA.
Then sprung up more p2p networks like Fasttrack (Kazaa and Morpheus), Gnutella (Shareaza, Bearshare, Gnucleus), Winmx, Audio Galaxy, and opennap networks. As time passed, more users connected to these networks and more apps were created. Now we have a few more like the Edonkey 2000 network (Edonkey, Emule), Overnet, Piolet, Ares, etc.

That is pretty much it. If you want me to go into more detail on a certain topic or I have missed something feel free to ask.

[Mel_Smiley]

How long before chamcham gets banned? nah just kiddin cham! welcome to ZP