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Oh yeah, I remember when we upgraded from dial up and the speeds were so fast I could download a new song while listening to another. Non-stop music!
Streaming but extra steps but freeeeeee
I paid for the internet, the 486, the power, and the apartment. I had to download napster and use it. that took time which could be exchanged for money.
Oddly enough it was the same federal minimum wage during Napster time as is it is now.
How was that "free" ? Free certainly had high price requirements.
You ran Napster on a 486? I was on a Pentium 200MMX in that era.
If you had pentium money you could have been at Sam Goody buying the damn CDs! Your punishment in hell will be tenfold.
Hell it’s decades later and I still don’t have Pentium money lol
Nah, 486s were old by the time Napster was out.... The first Pentium IIIs were coming out then I think
Napster and the PIII released in 1999
I think I did in fact first use it on my PIII 450MHz running win 98 maybe in 2000 or 2001. It feels like it must have been before 9/11.