id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1453 BitTorrent - Wikipedia .html text/html 10390 1367 66 Programmer Bram Cohen, a University at Buffalo alumnus,[7] designed the protocol in April 2001, and released the first available version on 2 July 2001.[8] As of June 2020[update], the most recent version was implemented in 2017.[1] BitTorrent clients are available for a variety of computing platforms and operating systems, including an official client released by BitTorrent, Inc. As of 2013[update], BitTorrent has 15–27 million concurrent users at any time.[9] Web "seeding" was implemented in 2006 as the ability of BitTorrent clients to download torrent pieces from an HTTP source in addition to the "swarm". In September 2010, a new service named Burnbit was launched which generates a torrent from any URL using webseeding.[86] There are server-side solutions that provide initial seeding of the file from the web server via standard BitTorrent protocol and when the number of external seeders reach a limit, they stop serving the file from the original source.[87] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1453.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1453.txt