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Lost Icons
In two years, Napster signed 80 million users, broke the music industry, and accidentally invented streaming. Sued by Metallica and shuttered in 2001, it remains a relic of a lawless digital frontier; its specific brand of chaos is now structurally impossible to replicate.
90s Internet
AOL Instant Messenger invented the social internet for an entire generation. It ran for twenty years. When Verizon finally shut it down in December 2017, the announcement came in a blog post that nobody read. Filed by: The What Happened To Archivist | Status: Closed — December 15, 2017 | Tags: AIM, AOL,
Culture
The internet you grew up with isn't the internet that existed first. This is where we open the cases on what came before — and what happened to it.