Ares came into existence in 2002, started by Alberto Treves. Originally it was a Gnutella client. But later that year they moved away from Gnutella in favor of its own network; the Ares network. This ...
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs...
Direct connect is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. Direct connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one user to another.
Hubs feature a list of clients or u...
FastTrack is a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. The file sharing application Morpheus originally used this network, but was late...
Gnutella is a file sharing network. Gnutella is the most popular file sharing network on the Internet with a market share of more than 40%. In June of 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million comp...
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-o...
JXTA (Juxtapose) is an open source peer-to-peer protocol specification begun by Sun Microsystems in 2001. Sun remains actively involved in the development and promotion of JXTA. The JXTA protocols are...
Multisource File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) is designed for the purpose of file sharing. It is still under development, and therefore may acquire more features or other improvements in addition to those...
OpenNap is a peer-to-peer service server. It was created as an open source Napster server, extending the Napster protocol to allow sharing of any media type, and adds the ability to link servers toget...
WinMX is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored by Frontcode Technologies that runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, created in 2001. According to one study, it was the number on...
