Ah. The Golden Age.

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 4:05 pm

By letting people exchange music at no charge, Napster exploded in popularity. That engendered the ire of the record industry even as Napster helped shape the early days of the Internet. (New York Times)

ADKbrown · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2002 8:38 pm

Of course the Internet had been around several years before Napster. The good old days were when about all you could do was read newsgroups and peruse library card catalogs.

tommangan · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2002 12:37 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
By letting people exchange music at no charge, Napster exploded in popularity. That engendered the ire of the record industry even as Napster helped shape the early days of the Internet. (New York Times)<hr></blockquote>
How can that guff get in the paper? Netscape's IPO, circa 1995, shaped the early days of the Internet.

Phillip Blanchard · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2002 1:01 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by tom mangan:

Netscape's IPO, circa 1995, shaped the early days of the Internet.<hr></blockquote>Still not "early" enough.

newsy01 · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2002 7:00 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
By letting people exchange music at no charge, Napster exploded in popularity. That engendered the ire of the record industry even as Napster helped shape the early days of the Internet. (New York Times)<hr></blockquote>Actually, together Al Gore and Napster built the Internet and wove the wires together that now form the World Wide Web. Where would we be without them.[ May 16, 2002: Message edited by: newsy01 ]

tommangan · **Posted:** Fri May 17, 2002 1:36 am

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by blanp:
Still not "early" enough.<hr></blockquote>OK, i see what you mean. The early days of the internet means, like, 1972.

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