Developers wanting to enhance applications with these services need the proper APIs to accomplish this. Slack) and project management software, remain the primary file sharing services for private users and enterprises alike.įrom collaborating on work documents to enjoying music services, we all use file sharing applications on a daily basis. In the 2000s, Decentralized file sharing network Gnutella & Gnutella P2P networks were invented, plus BitTorrent, which parcels files into bits for anonymous sharing, was released, followed by dozens of other Torrent applications.Ĭloud storage applications such as Box, Dropbox, iCloud, pastebins, and the like followed suit, and along with web-based messaging (i.e.

In the 1990s, the invention of the World Wide Web gave rise to web protocols for sharing, including those used IRC chat rooms, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) (used for Usenet), email attachments, AOL instant messenger and other IM file transfer, and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems such as Napster.

In the early days (1980s), it was done via a telephone line and a modem, hard copy files such as floppy disks, and then moved on to File Transfer Protocol (FTP) from a central server. Sharing files with friends and co-workers has had a long history of evolution.

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