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b3lvederetoday at 1:42 PM1 replyview on HN

If i remember correctly, back then even some sysadmins were even fired over it because of the usage of resources. It also sprouted some weird projects on how to distribute all those unused cpu cycles for other things.


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Cthulhu_today at 1:47 PM

And yet, distributed computing only became huge when people could earn / generate money off of it. Seti / Folding walked so that bitcoin could run?

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