This was an era where everything really technical was being done via IRC, FTP, and Usenet. WinAmp had yet to be released—let alone Napster. Nesticle was import

This was an era where everything really technical was being done via IRC, FTP, and Usenet. WinAmp had yet to be released—let alone Napster. Nesticle was important because it turned something that was once very hard into something quite easy, which is why it moved emulation away from a purely gray area. The same thing happened even more dramatically with MP3s just a couple of years later. Soon enough, the gray couldn't stay gray anymore, because too many people were doing it.