Twenty years ago, a group of friends with a limited budget made a fan film called “The Matrix”. Sharing their creation with the rest of the world initially seemed too expensive, but then they discovered a new technology called BitTorrent. Fast forward two decades: their release, “The Fanimatrix,” is the oldest active torrent that is still widely distributed. The torrent was created on September 27, 2003, and tomorrow it will turn 20 years old. Truly an outstanding achievement.
The film was made by a group of friends from New Zealand. With a budget of 800 New Zealand dollars (about 500 USD), almost half of which was spent on a leather jacket, they managed to complete the project in 9 days. The plot of the 16-minute film takes place just before the events of the original “Matrix” and tells the story of rebels Dante and Medusa from the ship “Decart” and their fateful mission in the virtual world of the “Matrix”.
Indeed, in 2003, the Internet was still in its infancy. Default connections were still dial-up, and YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail had not yet been invented. And since there were few options for sharing large files (up to 135 MB!) at the time, the newly created peer-to-peer protocol BitTorrent, which was first released on July 2, 2001, was used for its distribution.
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