Who remembers napster in the early days? Man that was beautiful place and a beautiful time.
we’d got our first computer and it was connected to the baby internet by a dial up connection. This was around 1999/2000 and it was phenomenal! I can still hear that screech as it tried to connect and the lovely AOL screen appeared. It was a learning curve for many of us and in the long run changed our lives massively.
”There were only 361 million Internet users in 2000, in the entire world. For perspective, that’s barely two-thirds of the size of Facebook today” – Solarwinds Blog
But napster was my favourite. Suddenly I had access to music I’d not heard in years and tons of new stuff that was relevant to me and not to some radio DJ. The more people that were on the site sharing files the longer it took to download a track. ( Torrent sites work the other way around now). It drained the bandwith at a time when our internet connection ran at about 56 Kbps (kilobits per second) compared to now at speeds of 1 Gbps (gigabit per second). But it worked and I found some of my favourite bands in those early days online.
It opened the world of music up for me. I had a small child and the hubby got to go the pub most days because he was the breadwinner and I was only the mother. I wasn’t so important. Not needing of interaction with other humans that didn’t talk about children or an escape from the 24/7 home.
By the time my daughter was two he was shagging another woman.
But I’d found music. I’d found my escape.