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those were the days. Back when Snoop would sell 2 million and people would call it a flop.
hell no - "huge", lol?just because groups of nerdy highschool-teenagers were downloadin songs from Napster in 2000 and 01, didnt make it "huge"
Quote from: Detox Is A Myth!!! on June 10, 2011, 09:42:33 AMLOL at the revisionist history that Napster wasn't huge back in 2000. Dudes, I remember that time because I was around back then. For instance, before this forum was created, we had this little forum that anyone could post to without a user account that had a black and red color scheme. It was the precursor to the DubCC forums. In those days, we were posting about these new songs we were discovering, because we were all basically young and broke high school students back then, and so we used Napster to download individual songs one by one. In fact, I distinctly remember that's how I first listened to Bow Down for example -- I literally had to find the tracklist and download each song on the album one by one...and I'm sure others did as well. Everybody in my high school was talking in the hallways about new music they were listening to because Napster enabled them to do so. That's in fact why there was a bubble in music sales back then, because people were using Napster to discover new music rather than to strictly illegal d.l. and save music.But anyway, people who say Napster wasn't big back then simply weren't around. Maybe it wasn't big in Europe -- I know this forum has a lot of Euros these days, but I'm talking about the United States, Napster was huge.i do too...and i was around back then too..lol...napster was huge...but not like big enough to fuck up album sales..niggas in the hood didnt know shit....about napster...lolkuz alot people was still on dial up...i remember days it took 4 days to get 1 song from yousendit...got to high school and college fell in love with t1...n discovered mirc on this very board..
LOL at the revisionist history that Napster wasn't huge back in 2000. Dudes, I remember that time because I was around back then. For instance, before this forum was created, we had this little forum that anyone could post to without a user account that had a black and red color scheme. It was the precursor to the DubCC forums. In those days, we were posting about these new songs we were discovering, because we were all basically young and broke high school students back then, and so we used Napster to download individual songs one by one. In fact, I distinctly remember that's how I first listened to Bow Down for example -- I literally had to find the tracklist and download each song on the album one by one...and I'm sure others did as well. Everybody in my high school was talking in the hallways about new music they were listening to because Napster enabled them to do so. That's in fact why there was a bubble in music sales back then, because people were using Napster to discover new music rather than to strictly illegal d.l. and save music.But anyway, people who say Napster wasn't big back then simply weren't around. Maybe it wasn't big in Europe -- I know this forum has a lot of Euros these days, but I'm talking about the United States, Napster was huge.
It wasn't huge as in everyone's using it. You nerds in nice colleges were using it. The rest of us weren't. Deal with it
Some people obviously don't understand what "Huge" means.Obviously Napster wasn't huge back then, as showcased by the title of this thread. If Napster was huge then the eastsidaz debut album would never have gone platinum.Itunes is huge. Napster was not huge. You can call it revolutionary, but certainly not huge. Yes, it certainly was a game changer for music, but compared to music downloading today, it wasn't used nearly as much as music gets downloaded these days.From kids who can't even hardly read all the way up to senior citizens who can barely understand the lyrics to music, Itunes is easily accessible and used. Napster was primarily only used by college students.
Quote from: Acgrundy on June 13, 2011, 06:04:03 PMSome people obviously don't understand what "Huge" means.Obviously Napster wasn't huge back then, as showcased by the title of this thread. If Napster was huge then the eastsidaz debut album would never have gone platinum.Itunes is huge. Napster was not huge. You can call it revolutionary, but certainly not huge. Yes, it certainly was a game changer for music, but compared to music downloading today, it wasn't used nearly as much as music gets downloaded these days.From kids who can't even hardly read all the way up to senior citizens who can barely understand the lyrics to music, Itunes is easily accessible and used. Napster was primarily only used by college students.Napster wasn't huge? lol ok.