Timeline of file sharing

This is a timeline of events in the history of file sharing.

Contents

Before 1970s

1970s

1980s

Most file sharing in this era was done by modem over landline telephone, at speeds from 300 to 9600 kilobits per second. Many file systems in use only supported short filenames. Computer memory and speed was very limited, with 50 MHz CPUs only being accessible to consumers at the end of the decade.

1990s

In this decade, the very basic ideas involved with file sharing were experimented with. Most of the protocols (like BitTorrent) that were involved in file sharing were not heavily used in this decade. Data compression technologies for audio and video (like MP3, AAC and MPEG1) were only usable by the general public towards the end of the 1990s – and sharing digital video was still a dream. Most of the world's telecommunications infrastructure did not have fibre optic cable readily available until the late 1990s.

2000s

In computer science terms, modern file sharing begins in the 2000s. Several file sharing protocols and file formats were introduced, along with nearly a decade in protocol experimentation. Towards the end of the 2000s, BitTorrent became subject to a "man in the middle" attack in TCP mode – and this has led most file sharing protocols to move to UDP towards the very end of the decade. Client and tracker software in this era was in development as much as the transmission protocols, so the file trading software was not always as reliable as it could have been.

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010s

In computer science terms, not much interesting took place in the 2010s. The BitTorrent protocol and clients became more stable, adopting UDP to defend against transmission problems related to TCP. IP6 support increased with clients and trackers. There were no new file sharing protocols introduced, only patches to the existing protocols.

2010

2011

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