- Napster provided a centralized server that indexed the files, and carried out the searches. Individual files remained on the hosts' computers and were transferred directly from peer to peer.
- The Pirate Bay, seed & leechers, Torrents, the BitTorrent protocol
- The Bitcoin protocol, the blockchain is roughly half a terabyte now
- On a site to download a torrent there’s an info hash and a magnet link

Argh it’s all just brainfarts 😵‍💫

Can a client index files and carry out searches, files remain on the hosts’ PC, linked only to your nsec and an info hash on the Bitcoin protocol, could you store the entirety of data on the internet on everyone’s PC without storing data on the protocol?