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Kinda funny small-world stuff that Justin Frankel (Winamp + Gnutella) went onto AOL/TimeWarner and got into a feud with an exec he wrote a passive-aggressive bl
by wp381640 6y ago
Kinda funny small-world stuff that Justin Frankel (Winamp + Gnutella) went onto AOL/TimeWarner and got into a feud with an exec he wrote a passive-aggressive blog post about without naming him. The exec was Chamath Palihapitiya.
Justin was and always will be a legend - he wrote an AOL Messsenger ad blocker and mp3 search plugin _while working at AOL_
- nostrademons 6y agoAnd Gnutella, too. I still remember hurrying to download it when it came out because I knew that Justin worked at AOL/TimeWarner and it was going to get taken down on Monday as soon as the powers that be realized someone had written a piracy app. Luckily people had mirrored it, and eventually ended up reverse-engineering the protocol.
- noloblo 6y agois there a link to the blog post? of Justin writing about unnamed exec
- wp381640 6y agoI tried finding it - even went into archive and couldn’t - sorry!