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Napster would have been 25 years old yesterday.


It debuted on June 1st, 1999, and shut down two years later. Its name lived on as a Best Buy brand, a re-named Rhapsody streaming service, and an attempt to cash in on NFT hype. But in my heart, it will always be a search engine for poorly-labeled, low-quality MP3s that take hours to download over AOL dial-up internet.

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