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Torrents are only 15 years old?? Wow, I could have sworn they came before that. I feel like I've been doing torrents forever.

Windows XP is older than torrents, but in my mind it feels much newer for some reason. I wonder why.

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I think it's just that this is oldest surviving torrent. Torrents/torrent software came out around 2001, which is more than 15 years.

I have a screenshot somewhere of my XP machine running DU meter & Napster to show off my brand new, 2nd in my county, cable modem pulling 400KB/sec. I felt like a God.

We only had dial-up, but I "borrowed" an EGPRS phone from work. 177.6 kbps (I think) felt more than you could ever need! Making it work in Slackware Linux was a challenge.

If you give this to someone today he will sue you for emotional harm.

Napster/Limewire predate it a bit.

Limewire, that takes me back.

I alternated between using Limewire and Bearshare back in the day. Vague memories but somehow their UI stuck with me.

Makes me even more happy we have Spotify nowadays :)

Title is misleading. Really it means to say that the oldest still active torrent is 15 years old.

No it's not. If you talk about the world's oldest woman, no one expects you to include Cleopatra in the running.

Well, I for one thought it meant the first ever torrent is still going. Why wouldn't people assume 'world's oldest torrent' means just that?! And 'the world's oldest running torrent is still running' is like 'world's oldest living human is still alive' - of course they are.

Yeah I thought the same.

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