Gene Kan (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gene_Kan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gene_Kan</a>) also had the same idea, until he shot himself while working on a distrubted peer to peer real time search engine in front of his computer I think.<p>I heard about him when I watched a documentary about Napster.<p>No documentary about Gene Kan exists. He is virtually unknown but his work was an important contribution.