The man named Peter Lenahan recently claimed to have created the "downloading" feature on the internet during a viral encounter with streamer IShowSpeed in South Dakota. However, these claims have yet to be independently confirmed or supported by historical evidence about the development of downloading technology on the internet. The concept of downloading as a function evolved over time with significant early contributions such as the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) developed by Abhay Bhushan in 1971. The internet itself evolved through work by many pioneers including Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, and Tim Berners- Lee, with Berners-Lee credited for inventing the World Wide Web. In summary, while Peter Lenahan claims to have created downloading, this assertion lacks verification and the downloading feature is generally understood to have evolved over time through multiple contributions starting with early protocols like FTP.
Additionally, a notable figure named Peter Sunde is a co-founder of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine, but he is not credited with creating downloading itself.