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Two College Students Start A File-Sharing Service Nobody Asked For And Everybody UsesJUNE 14, 2000 · 12:35
The company has no business plan, no office and a name that is currently also the name of an early film about a piece of chewing gum. Its entire staff is two people in California who met in a chat room about pirates.
THEIR WEBSITE. THERE IS NO PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PEOPLE.
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THEIR WEBSITE. THERE IS NO PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PEOPLE.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14 -- A file-sharing service called Napster was founded this month by two people who met online and shared, among other things, an interest in music that other people did not want to hear about.
The service lets anyone swap songs with anyone else, for free, with no copy of anything. Whether that is legal has not yet been decided. It grew from a few hundred users in its first month to a few thousand in its second.
Asked what the business model was, one of the founders said there was not one yet. Asked what he expected to do for a living, he said he had been a physics graduate student and was now, in his words, "a person who is on the internet a lot."
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BATHTUBINGFAIL
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· Bath (yes) · 2 minutes later
BATHTUBINGFAIL wrote:
we have had this computer since 1998 and it still works. you people will not buy this because of the new thing... is it just me or did nobody else get an update when they said they were releasing one? mine says 1999 on it.
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Hippie586
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· Eugene, OR · an hour later
my parents bought a house in 1989 because the paper said prices would never go up. they were right. for 3 years.
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OldAndBald
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· a recliner · same afternoon
OldAndBald wrote:
Two College Students Start A File-Sharing Service Nobody Asked For And Everybody Uses we have had this computer since 1998 and it still works. you people will not buy this because of the new thing. i do not care. i am right.
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SgtPeppersGhost
Joined: Jul 2001 · Posts: 1455
· Liverpool · that evening
buy the stock. i am not a financial adviser. i am a man with a modem.
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TOTALLYNOTABOT
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· the cloud · the next morning
i work in the industry (i do not want to say where) and everything in this article is correct, which is rare, and wrong about the timeline, which is also rare.
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internetwasbetter
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· a modem · the following day
this is the same thing that happened with the falklands and with the gulf and we were fine, and then we were fine the other time too, so we will be fine
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