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> Gnutella has gone mostly forgotten. Some of that is because it was a component technology hidden beneath more visible projects like LimeWire. The other half of this is that the walled garden model of modern platforms means most internet users don't even remember what a filesystem is anymore.

Really? Not going to mention bit torrent?

Gnutella died because bit torrent took over in popularity. Bit torrent only did the parts that scaled pretty well, so it wasn't a true replacement, but it turned out that its difficult to go after index sites in foreign countries, so nobody minded putting index sites back on the http web.