making our own napster so we can party like it’s 1999!

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Recreates a tiny Napster: reverse-engineers opennap protocol, implements length/type/data packets and hex headers, uses Python sockets over TCP, encodes data with ASCII, and implements a single-byte ACK plus file transfer in 1024-byte chunks. Central index model is simulated, about a handful of the original ~130 Napster messages are used, and the toy server is actually deployed to AWS and successfully downloads an MP3 that plays in Winamp.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:02Napster and peer-to-peer
3. 2:27Sockets power the internet
4. 3:10TCP sockets and HTTP
5. 4:54Napster protocol with sockets
6. 6:38Binary vs ASCII in messages
7. 7:39Core Napster messages
8. 8:41Downloading MP3 peer-to-peer
9. 10:07Live demo
10. 11:12Closing thoughts

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