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> I miss P2P sharing apps that had chat rooms and communities build around them (anyone reading this remember VNN2000?). Nah. But I really did dig WASTE !

com2kid 6y ago
I never used WASTE, I was a fan of Direct Connect though. It is weird how technological limitations forced tiny servers and users to talk in order to swap files. IRC of course being the precursor to all this. Bit torrent has everything, but I don't get to stumble on someones shared files know they like somethings I like, and then explore organically. What I miss most from the earlier web is mp3.com. To this day I am angry at the founder for screwing over countless independent artists so he could try and prove a point against the RIAA. The market still hasn't consolidated on a similar product that does everything MP3.com used to do: 1. Bands Organized by Genre 2. Streaming of the band's songs 3. Ability to order a band's music 4. Social discovery of new music If I cobble together Sound Cloud and Bandcamp I'm still stuck with a discovery problem that Spotify only kinda helps. Mp3.com was a directory like the old Yahoo, so browsing around was a great way to discover new music and then BUY it. (I still haven't been able to find a replacement for an album I ordered off mp3.com, the band up and vanished as most bands do and I lost the CD.)
- johnchristopher 6y ago
  > (I still haven't been able to find a replacement for an album I ordered off mp3.com, the band up and vanished as most bands do and I lost the CD.) I feel you. There a tons of bands (and other works such as books) that aren't and likely won't ever be accessible. This grinds my gears when I read comments about how the Internet/Piracy has everything. It has everything that is mainstream enough and even then the ephemeral nature of some technology used to share it (torrent, emule, etc.) don't necessarily mean it's available years later. In the sense that torrent networks aren't for storage but for sharing. It's an error to believe piracy makes everything available.

com2kid 6y ago

I never used WASTE, I was a fan of Direct Connect though. It is weird how technological limitations forced tiny servers and users to talk in order to swap files. IRC of course being the precursor to all this. Bit torrent has everything, but I don't get to stumble on someones shared files know they like somethings I like, and then explore organically. What I miss most from the earlier web is mp3.com. To this day I am angry at the founder for screwing over countless independent artists so he could try and prove a point against the RIAA. The market still hasn't consolidated on a similar product that does everything MP3.com used to do: 1. Bands Organized by Genre 2. Streaming of the band's songs 3. Ability to order a band's music 4. Social discovery of new music If I cobble together Sound Cloud and Bandcamp I'm still stuck with a discovery problem that Spotify only kinda helps. Mp3.com was a directory like the old Yahoo, so browsing around was a great way to discover new music and then BUY it. (I still haven't been able to find a replacement for an album I ordered off mp3.com, the band up and vanished as most bands do and I lost the CD.)

johnchristopher 6y ago
> (I still haven't been able to find a replacement for an album I ordered off mp3.com, the band up and vanished as most bands do and I lost the CD.) I feel you. There a tons of bands (and other works such as books) that aren't and likely won't ever be accessible. This grinds my gears when I read comments about how the Internet/Piracy has everything. It has everything that is mainstream enough and even then the ephemeral nature of some technology used to share it (torrent, emule, etc.) don't necessarily mean it's available years later. In the sense that torrent networks aren't for storage but for sharing. It's an error to believe piracy makes everything available.