Foundations of Blockchain

History of P2P network

The early vision of the World Wide Web was aligned with the concept of P2P networking, where each user would be an active editor of and contributor to the network. USENET, first developed in 1979, enforced a decentralized model in which USENET servers communicated with each other to share news articles.

Although the P2P model was used in the early days of the internet, its most common use came about when it was implemented in file-sharing services. P2P in filesharing was popularized by the music-sharing application Napster. However, a number of music services followed that had a similar P2P filesharing model. Although Napster was the pioneer, filesharing in P2P has gained a lot of attention due to the BitTorrent protocol, ...