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Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine. [1]
Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. [3] Initially, Napster was envisioned by Fanning as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. [4] Its technology enabled people to easily share their MP3 files with other participants. [5]
Ali Aydar is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of Sporcle.. He is best known as an early employee and key technical contributor at the original Napster, the file-sharing service created by Shawn Fanning in 1999, and at SNOCAP, the digital rights and content management startup Fanning founded after Napster.
Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched video-chat company Airtime Media in June of this year. Now, four months later, the future of the company is uncertain, and Fanning has ...
Napster's legacy: 4 ways the software changed the music industry, from streaming to how artists make money An internet site appears on a computer screen as a user downloads music onto a minidisc ...
June 1999 – Napster was created by Shawn Fanning. Napster let users search across all users' shares. Napster provided a centralized server that indexed the files, and carried out the searches. [28] Individual files, however, remain on the hosts' computers and were transferred directly from peer to peer.
When it launched on June 1, 1999, the peer-to-peer music sharing service responded to a real need. It also heralded a troubling new ethic in tech that still shapes our world today.
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement.