by slasherindex | Jun 1, 2003
DVD outrents VHS for the very first time. According to the VSDA, “This is a milestone in the history of home video. Since the advent of video rental 25 years ago, videocassettes have been the dominant format.” According to VSDA VidTrac, 28.2 million DVDs were...
by slasherindex | Jan 1, 2002
The first D-VHS VCR is released in the US for $2000. Although the format had been in use since 1999 for data storage, the new machine repackages the technology for the purpose of recording HDTV. Later that year, Hollywood films are released on the format under the...
by slasherindex | Jul 2, 2001
BitTorrent, a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol which uses torrent files and trackers, is first launched on bitconjurer.org. It later becomes the most used method to download feature films from the internet.
by slasherindex | Mar 14, 2000
First available for download on the developer’s website, Nullsoft.com, it is the first peer-to-peer network to be decentralized. Rather than searching a single centralized index for the location of files, the load is shared among all the peers of the network,...
by slasherindex | Jun 1, 1999
Although mainly a music sharing platform (due to internet speeds at the time), it paved the way for subsequent peer-to-peer sharing programs that would allow the sharing of all files, including videos.