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Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen is the brains behind the widely used BitTorrent protocol,as well as the torrent client by the same name. He is a computer programmer, and a math enthusiast with hobbies like origami and juggling.
Bram Cohen was born in 1975 and grew up in the New York. He learnt the BASIC programming language when he was just five. Cohen went on to join Buffalo university but dropped out to participate in the dot com boom. He worked through a series of dot companies ending up at MojoNation, which was a service that distributed encrypted files from several machines. Cohen had the idea of using the system for file sharing. Cohen designed the BitTorrent protocol that allowed simultaneousl downloads from many shares at once, thus substantially increasing the speed at which data got distributed. The protocol was presented in 2002 at CodeCon.
The concept spread like wildfire, and soon several independent clients showed up to use the protocol.
Bram Cohen was born in 1975 and grew up in the New York. He learnt the BASIC programming language when he was just five. Cohen went on to join Buffalo university but dropped out to participate in the dot com boom. He worked through a series of dot companies ending up at MojoNation, which was a service that distributed encrypted files from several machines. Cohen had the idea of using the system for file sharing. Cohen designed the BitTorrent protocol that allowed simultaneousl downloads from many shares at once, thus substantially increasing the speed at which data got distributed. The protocol was presented in 2002 at CodeCon.
The concept spread like wildfire, and soon several independent clients showed up to use the protocol.
Source: Digit oct 2008
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