That project eventually ran out of money so the then 25-year old developer went on to focus on his own file-sharing protocol.Ĭohen certainly wasn’t the only programmer in this niche. Cohen previously worked for the startup behind the MojoNation peer-to-peer network. While BitTorrent lacked a fancy PR channel, its creator made up for that with coding inventiveness. Nothing hinted at the powerhouse BitTorrent would soon become.
The official website, consisting of a few lines of HTML code with black text on a white background, didn’t impress either. This was probably one of the more underwhelming software launches in history. “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Bram Cohen wrote on a Yahoo! message board on July 2, 2001.
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