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In hole, massachusetts,

which is about 45 minutes

South of boston.

Um, just, this

converted restaurant.

Like three desks in the place.

I just sat there

and worked on it.

Ummm...

for a few months

until it was actually

Building a user base.

I remember i got to go up

and hang out with him

And he'd be like pizza

was everywhere, and...

he was just jamming out

to led zeppelin.

He'd like sleep at the office,

on the floor.

He'd like, he never

left his computer, you know.

Its not hyperbole,

it was an actual closet.

I think he might have some pride

Or just want something more,

but for me,

It was, i was having so much fun

building it,

I just didn't care.

You know, i get occasionally

A little bit uncomfortable

when people would show up

And you'd be crawling out of,

you know,

Your sleeping bag.

So fanning had written

his version one

And being not

professionally trained,

Uh, not trained at all...

uh, and just, just having

his ideas and ah,

Here's a computer

and this wonder for learning

And for for absorbing, uh,

We'll just go and try

and make it work.

And it didn't work. Like every,

everyone's first hello world program.

His was file sharing stuff.

Didn't work,

so listen to the group for help.

And i was there.

At the start was

pretty much myself

And a lot of people online

that were helping out

Just to make it work.

Helping fix problems,

stuff like that.

He sort of asked, hey, how,

This thing keeps crashing.

What do you think?

But unlike anyone else,

He wouldn't let us

see the source code.

I was like, oh really?

Well that sounds

like it's probably

A... A buffer overrun or an

unchecked battery condition.

Or something like that.

And show, show us the code

and we'll fix it for you.

And he was like, no.

Okay. This was kind of cool

because

It came out as a challenge.

It's like,

i'm not going to tell you,

But i'm going to keep soliciting

for help.

So, we're all hackers.

This is what we do.

We, you know, [stammers]

Establish commercial vendor x

Does not want to share

anything with us.

Yet, we are going

to find a way in.

Just the idea that

we were gonna build

The first decentralized

file system.

I think the patent, actually,

the napster patent

Uses this terminology.

You talk about a

distributed file system.

Since 1998.

We've been discussing it

with various different people

In our community

and we've been told

By a lot of, you know,

pretty experienced

Technical minds

That the technical challenge

associated

With a decentralized file system

Was actually too difficult.

It was believed

that this wouldn't scale.

He would load up this app

and it would basically

Connect to one of our servers

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