Back in the year 1999, a program was uploaded to the internet that would forever change how we look music in the digital world. Think I’m talking about iTunes? I’m not. The program I referring to is a little program called Napster.
Napster taught an entire generation that those who came before them were dumb. Why spend your hard earned money on a CD in a store when you would download a digital version for the incredible price of free? With Napster it was simple. Simply launch the program, type what song or band you are looking for into the search box, and literally hundreds of search results are returned. Simply click on one of the links and the music was yours in a matter of minutes. Cost to you? Nothing. Cost to the Recording Industry? Well…the jury (literally) is still out on that one. The important thing is that life would never be the same.
Sadly, Napster would be shut down within the next two years. Sure, the name would live on, but never as it was originally imagined. But like all revolution, it didn’t end there. In those two years Napster will have inspired dozens of clones. One of them was a service called Audiogalaxy.
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