Gnutella
Large peer-to-peer network by Nullsoft / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about file sharing technology. For the spread, see Nutella.
Gnutella is a peer-to-peer network protocol. Founded in 2000, it was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model.[1]
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In June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computers[2] increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006.[3] In late 2007, it was the most popular file-sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40%.[4]