The First Peer-To-Peer Apps

    Peer to peer applications were an innovative use of the newly invented systems of file sharing and the also newly invented internet. While many peer to peer applications popped up and transformed technology, they all had a few things in common. They helped average people connected and share, and offered a much better way to store and share information at a base level. For a more practical standpoint, the technology could be used by two or more usernames who wanted to share a single file, for example an MP3 file, a song, which they wanted to share with their friends. 

   Some of the earliest innovators in this field was the music sharing service Napster. It was very different from our current music media today, such as apple music or Spotify, but it still made music much more accessible to Americans. Before Napster, if you wanted to give a song or album to a friend without making them fully buy the music themselves, you would have to burn a new disc and physically hand that to your friend, you could now do it all digitally. Just send them a file of a song you liked, and within seconds they would be seamlessly listening to it from their own computer. 

   This was such a technological anomaly that even today the most popular forms of media use it for pretty much every process. Everything from Facebook, to twitter, to even google classroom constantly shares files to make your digital experience seamless and adds a whole social element to your internet use. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/24/napster-music-free-file-sharing