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[โ€“] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't see a published date, but the newest reference listed appears to be 2004.

Seems to me like in the 20+ years since, DHTs were fixed to be more useful. (The one it describes sounds like Freenet instead of say tracker-free BitTorrent.)

I found under 'Projects' on the website it's from March 2005 which makes sense given the mention of Kazaa in the introduction.