Comment by croon

Yeah, I had the same experience, found a comment from 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16057725

Thinking about it I also remember a client I can't remember the name of that was mainly an indexer/file explorer on top of samba shares that just traversed everyone on the same subnet on SUNET that many used as a pseudo extension of their own library, sort of proto-cloud storage.