This was a time that "cloud" was still a decade or so in the future for the huge majority of people. You had to keep all your data locally, including all your m

This was a time that "cloud" was still a decade or so in the future for the huge majority of people. You had to keep all your data locally, including all your music and photos. There's no way anyone would want to keep full histories of their repositories locally, competing with their mp3s.