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This is from 2004. What's new?

• gdulli 10y ago
  A whole generation of a potentially interested audience who was not yet aware of Nullsoft in 2004.
  • ethbro 10y ago
    A generation who can't imagine the novelty of performing a first search on Napster or Direct Connect. Magic!
    • nol13 10y ago
      Downloads on the campus direct connect network in '02 are still the fastest I've achieved real world then or since, with a selection probably at least comparable to any torrent site. They've just never seen real file sharing. Or is file sharing just now obsolete now? A bit out of the loop :/
      • ethbro 10y ago
        One of the campuses I was on had fiber to every dorm room. I remember the banners on DC++ servers exhorting users not to play movies directly across the network. The idea of streaming a movie off someone else's hard drive certainly seemed like witchcraft.
    • joering2 10y ago
      Audiogalaxy. Was always impressed how easy it was to find 320kbit versions or even some extremely rare songs...
      • krrrh 10y ago
        I remember audiogalaxy being the first web interface I saw that made use of ajax--clicking on the download buttons next to songs, not having the page refresh, and immediately viewing source to try to discover what wizardry this was.
      • riffraff 10y ago
        Audiogalaxy was insanely effective at finding related music, due to, basically, human curation. I will always be grateful of having discovered lamb and goldfrapp through it.
        • joering2 10y ago
          (OT) I discovered goldfrapp by watching Hard Candy. Awesome movie.
        • eltoozero 10y ago
          Up-voted for dragging Lamb into an HN thread. ;) Somehow appropriate for a decade old article about 90's vintage desktop MP3 software. Now go and try to locate rips of episodes of AMP from MTV and complete your electronica collection.
      • stuaxo 10y ago
        Will we ever see something as good as it again? It would be tricky, but surely not impossible.
    • pimlottc 10y ago
      Whippersnapper. Back in my day, we searched for MP3s on anonymous FTP sites via oth.net!
    • naranana 10y ago
      SoulSeek
      • ue_ 10y ago
        I still use slsk and it's great :)
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