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Article: Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet.(Book Reviews)
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- Technical Communication
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- August 1, 2004
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Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet
Bo Leuf. 2002. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley. [ISBN 0-201-76732-5. 429 pages, including index. $44.99 USD (softcover).]
As humans, we have a primeval need to communicate with each other even when we are physically apart. We have used the carrier pigeon, smoke signals, letters, telegraph, telephone, walkie-talkies, e-mail, and the Internet. Many of these are examples of peer-to-peer communication, although the term is usually reserved for communication through computers.
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Peer-to-peer communication is communication among equals, one computer talking to another ...