Comment mp3.com in the 90s? (Score 1) 406
Does anybody remember mp3.com's initial launch in the late 90s? It was essentially a "cloud music" service over a decade ahead of its time. You didn't actually upload mp3s, but it would scan the CD in your CD-Rom drive, presumably do something like match the CDDB info, then those mp3s would be in your account, freely downloadable from any internet-connected computer. People would share music collections by using each others' passwords and downloading all the mp3s in each others' accounts, it was a cool time on the internet frontier! Short lived though.. I seem to remember them getting a cease-and-desist not 6 weeks after I started using it, and soon afterward they reinvented themselves into an early incarnation of whatever they are right now.
