Posted on 21/05/08
FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE, TRY NAPSTER
Put this one in the irony file. In the late 1990s - eons ago in Internet time - a university student named Shawn Fanning and a couple of friends created a music-sharing service that they used to trade songs among themselves, and they called it Napster (a nickname that Fanning got as a result of his curly hair). It arrived about the same time as the invention of the MP3 file, and the combination of the two things was like tossing a lighted match into a pool of gasoline. Within a year or two, Napster had tens of millions of users.
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