WASTE's a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging, chat rooms and file browsing/sharing capabilities. The name WASTE's a reference to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49. In the novel, W.A.S.T.E.'s (among other things) an underground postal service. After its release, WASTE was removed from distribution by AOL, Nullsoft's parent company. The original page was replaced with a state… (More on Waste)