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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

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The oldest surviving torrent we have seen is a copy of the Matrix fan film "The Fanimatrix." The torrent was created in September 2003 and will turn 20 years old in a few days.

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The world's oldest active torrent turns 20 years old

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For the lazy: "The oldest surviving torrent we have seen is a copy of the Matrix fan film “The Fanimatrix”."
- But is it any good?
  
  Valid question.
  But if it’s the dumbest shit in existence, it’s still worth seeding because it’s a part of history.
  It’s like if Terror Toons was the first torrent ever.
It's really neat to see something like this still going. Torrenting is a cool technology, it's fun to download and then seed a file, knowing that now other people will get to enjoy it.
- Seeing all the flags of different countries sharing the torrent makes me think this is what international cooperation looks like.
Well... I guess I'm seeding it now too
- Ditto. cue "I'm doing my part" from Starship Troopers
- Imagine if this article was written just because the author was having trouble downloading it because there weren't enough seeders.
I wonder what percentage of the total internet traffic, since inception, can be attributed to this protocol.
I bet it's pretty high
- Also which periods of time was it higher or lower percentages.
  Willing to bet at its inception it was higher than it was when Netflix arrived.
- Probably less than spam email.
  
  Multiple games has been using it to distribute updates
It's not even a ilegal download. Cool.
Torrenting is the way to go. Especially with VPN port forwarding now.
- Seems like some VPNs are pulling back from port forwarding. Was a bummer that Mullvad did, probably due to legal pressure
  
  Not legal pressure, government pressure. They kept getting asked to disclose which accounts had which ports associated with then and share all the info on them they kept (which for some payment methods they do briefly). So they decided to remove the feature rather than potentially violate their founding principle of privacy and anonymity. Kudos to them. Of course f*ck the CSAM assholes who made the government get involved in this and cost us this feature.
  
  why do you need port forwarding if you have VPN?
  Its been a long, long time since i've used torrents in any form, so I have no idea.
- Why is VPN port forwarding relevant here?
  
  Mostly for western developed countries where you will get fucked up by the government for pirating. ISP's in US Canada and UK will sue normal middle class people for torrenting, unless you mask your IP with the correct VPN.
The Fanimatrix sounds like it should be a porn parody to me. Or some kind of detailed database and analysis of vaginas.
- The OnlyFanimatrix?
Did Linux OSs move into torrents later? I'm surprised one of those isn't an older active torrent. I mean sure there's no point in actually installing those OSs now but people would still seed.
- Ther's really no point in seeding a 20 year old iso of an os that evolves that quickly
  20 years ago we were on the 2.4 kernel just shortly before switching to 2.6, wifi was a mess, GPUs were even more mess
  now om gaming on my linux machine with better FPS than the windows version
  
  Any Linux distro do HDR / VRR yet?
- Most advice I've seen says you shouldn't look for distros on torrent sites, and official torrents tend to disappear after each new release.
  
  Distros with torrents tend to publish their own torrent file or magnet link on their site
Fuck I’m old. I remember discovering Bit Torrent.

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