How it started
History
The program was created by Wayne Chang, a student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
i2hub used Internet2, which was a special network that connected universities around the world. It allowed faster data transfer rates than typical Internet connections. Because of this, download speeds through i2hub were usually much faster than through other peer-to-peer networks.
The service was launched in March 2004 and ultimately expanded to over 400 universities and colleges both in the United States and abroad.
From Wikipedia’s article on i2hub, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2