![]() ![]() So DC++, an open source replacement of the original Neo-Modus client has born, exactly 20 years ago this day. In the fall of 2001 one DC user, a secondary school teenager, thought he could easily make a much better, ad-free client for this network and that it would would be a fun project for him to improve his skills in C++ programming. This system of direct file sharing built around online communities has quickly become a success at the end of the 90’s, despite its clumsiness and annoying limitations. NMDC could be used for sharing of files using a community hub capable of controlling direct file transfers between its online users and also relaying searches and instant messages. It was a quite good, if not revolutionary idea of its time but a bit clumsy and low-quality implementation of a business model that wanted to get revenue through displaying ads in its client software. In the beginning there was NMDC, as its name says (Neo-Modus) a new way of file sharing. ![]()
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