what was the first privet torrent tracker ?

[melsharckawy]

what was the first privet torrent tracker ?
dose any one know the answer ?

[rvt]

I believe bytemonsoon was a very early one (pre TB), but it may not have been the first.
The original phoenix torrents (not related to the current one afaik) was also open quite a while back. It closed its doors as FL was just getting started.

[melsharckawy]

But someone told me it is torrentbits.org

[rvt]

tb was based on bytemonsoon code iirc.

[melsharckawy]

thaaaanks
I hope it is the true

when it was created?

[briand5379]

Don't know which one is the orignal but my first private tracker was BitHQ. Despite joining others I always seem to comeback to it.

[seanbee]

delete this post plz - i was talking rubbish

[taba]

bitsoup was my first, followed by midnight-torrents and then revtt.

Now i am a member on almost all of them (at least all the ones I want) but I am slowly beginning to going back to having minimal accounts - FTN being #1 of course

he is askin about the oldest tracker to b online ..... not the oldest acc here

[seanbee]

bitsoup was my first, followed by midnight-torrents and then revtt.

Now i am a member on almost all of them (at least all the ones I want) but I am slowly beginning to going back to having minimal accounts - FTN being #1 of course

he is askin about the oldest tracker to b online ..... not the oldest acc here
Ohh sorry my mistake, thought he was asking what is your first private tracker.

[Presto]

delete

[rvt]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tbsource

Originally based on the ByteMonsoon source, TBSource has easily become the most commonly used core for many of the private sites around today.The original TB domain was resistered on 9th June 2003, I can't get the details for the original registration of bytemonsoon, presumably they dropped it at one point. The current registration say 5th October 2004, but archive.org has pages from June 2003 for them.

Wikipedia also lists TBSource as being based on bytemonsoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBSource
Take a look at the "Criticism" section to see what us coders have to work with :P

[KevinGarnet]

Bytemonsoon i think was the first..

[_coder_]

i remember hpj was open for signups in 2001

[TheFoX]

ByteMonsoon was the first functional tracker that integrated membership into the code, and TorrentBits added forums and stuff.

Prior to that, we had such places as Hawkies World, which was a forum with a tracker attached. In those days, we didn't have a browse page. You had to embed the torrent file as a link into a forum post.

As for one of the first, I believe it was Digital Update.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.digital-update.com/