I come to bury Napster, not to praise it...

[N-OS X-tasy!]

silvarios wrote:
I have a confession. I've never used Napster.

Nor will you ever.

[decay]

remember Hotline chat during Steve Jobs Keynotes?

[bazookaman]

I remember the Hotline regulars would get the noobs to hold down the command key and type "quicker" to get their downloads to speed up.

[silvarios]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
I have a confession. I've never used Napster.

Nor will you ever.
I meant the actual Napster service from a decade+ ago.

[freeradical]

There is still Usenet. :-)

[decay]

freeradical wrote:
There is still Usenet. :-)

and blogsearch and captain crawl and filestube.com

[Will Collier]

The original Napster was an incredible way to find rare stuff that was either never released on CD or never officially released at all. The (probably fake, but still cool) Led Zeppelin acetate acoustic version of "Black Dog" leaps to mind.