Papers on the original Freenet, from Ian Clarke’s 1999 project report at the University of Edinburgh through an independent measurement study of the deployed network in 2014.
The original Freenet was spun off in March 2023 as Hyphanet, when the ground-up redesign developed internally as “Locutus” took the Freenet name. These papers describe the original design. The Freenet whitepaper covers what ships from this site today, and the version numbers here, Freenet 0.5 and 0.7, belong to the original series. Freenet’s History and the FAQ go into the split.