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View submission: Did you use Napster?
Yes, I honestly consider that time peak humanity.
When I was 11yo I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I was a grandparent talking to my grandkids about a song that I loved when I was their age. I tried singing it but couldn't get the tune quite right and then remembered I still had the record in a box on the top shelf of a closet so I went and got the box down and found the record but then l remembered I didn't have a record player! I sat holding that record in my hands just staring at it and crying because I would never be able to hear that song again. The next day I was in the dentist's office waiting room and there was an article in the magazine talking about the next greatest thing in music - the compact disc.
So when napster happened I thought, hallelujah, music will never ever be lost. I discovered so much music I would never have heard... old music, unpopular music, independent music. I loved engaging with others just talking about music and sharing our love for it. I thought, yes, this is what the "internet" is all about. At the time I had just started my family so I no longer had discretionary funds to spend on music or free time to waste listening to the radio, but thanks to napster I was able to find and discover music I enjoyed so I actually purchased cds and spent money to see bands I would not have otherwise. The community was the best.
There's nothing here!