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In 2003, an era before YouTube and streaming, a Matrix fan film aptly dubbed “The Fanimatrix” could only affordably be distributed via a then-novel technology, BitTorrent. Incredibly, the torrent created on September 28, 2003 is still going strong 15 years later, and according to TorrentFreak, it’s the oldest active torrent on the internet.
With no budget left they had to find something cheap, or free. Frost, who was working as a network administrator at the time, went looking for a solution and stumbled upon a new technology that could help. Something called “BitTorrent.” “It looked promising because it scaled such that the more popular the file became, the more the bandwidth load was shared. It seemed like the perfect solution,” Frost says, looking back.
With no budget left they had to find something cheap, or free. Frost, who was working as a network administrator at the time, went looking for a solution and stumbled upon a new technology that could help. Something called “BitTorrent.” “It looked promising because it scaled such that the more popular the file became, the more the bandwidth load was shared. It seemed like the perfect solution,” Frost says, looking back.
