Who invented the concept of TORRENTS ?

[The Day Dreamer]

I checked on Wikipedia, and tried searching on Google but no clear answer.

Who is the man behind TORRENTS? Who came up with the idea of torrents?

Any source and answer?

 

[halik]

I checked on Wikipedia, and tried searching on Google but no clear answer.

Who is the man behind TORRENTS? Who came up with the idea of torrents?

Any source and answer?

No you didn't, because it's the second paragraph.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

 

[The Day Dreamer]

No you didn't, because it's the second paragraph.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

I went to Wikipedia article on Torrents

 

[KeithP]

Steve Torrent was the inventor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(company)#BitTorrent

-KeithP (kidding about the Steve Torrent thing)

 

[Ichinisan]

I remembered the Bram Cohen's name from the original articles that were posted online after he released everything at a hacker conference.

 

[UncleWai]

Al Gore started it all.

 

[minendo]

Al Gore started it all.

This guy knows his stuff. Anything internet related always links back to Al Gore. It is like 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon, but there is only 1 degree to Al Gore.

 

[Rakehellion]

Steve Torrent was the inventor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(company)#BitTorrent

Says it right on the page.

"Torrents were invented by Steven Henry Torrent in 1971 as a method to improve call quality when whaling. A torrenter would connect hundreds of telephone calls together and have all of the participants shout at once. The resulting vibrations would cause an electric surge in the ocean water causing the whale to surface."

 

[CZroe]

I remember having the idea while Napster was all the rage. File topic was the first I saw to implement "swarmed downloads" from multiple source users.

 

[DesiPower]

Not me, never even heard of it, forget about using it, don't look at me, I know nothing about it.

 

[Ichinisan]

I remember having the idea while Napster was all the rage. File topic was the first I saw to implement "swarmed downloads" from multiple source users.

I'm sure you meant "Filetopia" (damn autocorrect).