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		xvilka on Dec 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internet's first general-purpose distributed c... BOINC[1] still alive, not sure how relevant though. [1] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

segfaultbuserr on Dec 9, 2019 [–]

SETI@Home was launched in 1999, BOINC was launched in 2002. I suspect distributed.net was an inspiration to both. And interestingly, GIMPS started searching Mersenne Primes in 1997, around the same time when the first DES challenge was active.

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