A history of BitTorrent (Infographic)

BIG BOLD LETTERS AND NUMBERS WITH OVER-"ACCURATE" SUMS LIKE 12341324.234!

That could not be less easy to read both from the visuals and the actual text. And the typography is so bad, just look at the Ts in the first "BITTORRENT". Isohunt is a search engine, not a tracker.

This is the worst kind of attention whoring ("Infographic! Bittorrent!") and gives me a bad impression of Mozy.

I remember attempting to make a torrent of the then newly released Slackware 8.0 ISO, almost within a few days of bittorent's release.

It took another year before you could find enough content to use it though. eDonkey had all the good materials, but people were moving over to KaZaa. I think Bittorent took off after people got tired of moding KaZaa and removing the spyware; KaZaa-Lite worked until ~2003, but after that bittorent took over.

The infographic says that Mininova has less users and visits than The Pirate Bay, yet Mininova is the 108th most popular website and TPB is the 109th. How is that?

That has to be the least informative 'infographic' I've ever seen.

I was really hoping to see more about the legal applications of BitTorrent, all that pirating information is old (probably inaccurate) and in my opinion not interesting.

A history of BitTorrent should involve how it was developed, how it has changed since it's release and what kind of application it sees, not only the pirating (and WoW) application.

For another example of an interesting legal use of BitTorrent, see murder, Twitter's Ruby library for deployments using BitTorrent: http://github.com/lg/murder

It's amazing how many industries can be disrupted by a single person creating a new protocol.