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I'm probably older than the average age here, but 2007 certainly seems a long time ago to me. Especially in technology. No iPhones, no Android, no tablets (that

I'm probably older than the average age here, but 2007 certainly seems a long time ago to me. Especially in technology. No iPhones, no Android, no tablets (that anybody used, anyway), no always-on high-speed internet everywhere, no multi-core CPUs (ok, we had some two-cores), no Twitter (yes, it was going then, but who was using it?). No music streaming. Seems like a simpler age.

_delirium 12y ago
Fwiw, there was definitely music streaming. Internet-streaming royalties were even a political issue as far back as the late '90s, when the DMCA contained a controversial internet-only royalty structure different from traditional radio. Post-dot-com-crash, there was then a renewed burst of launches and acquisitions in the mid-2000s. One of the bigger streaming services of the era was Last.fm, founded in 2002, and acquired by CBS for ~$300m in 2007.
toast0 12y ago
> No music streaming. Really? Shoutcast was created in 1998, Digitally Imported has been around since 1999. I wrote a hacky thing to stream di.fm to my Nokia 3650 over the air in 2004 (the downloadable real media app could stream mp3, but not handle shoutcast data, so I had to strip it out; plus the achievable bandwidth was less than the lowest bitrate stream, so I had to downsample).