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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]
Parker invested in Facebook a few years after Napster’s collapse, and as its first president, he helped secure Mark Zuckerberg's total control of the company, eventually making Parker a billionaire.
When Napster emerged on the internet 25 years ago, many knew it represented the future. The record labels and artists pushed back. ... Shawn Fanning began work on what would be come Napster as a ...
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.
Napster [3] [4] is a music streaming service based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Until 2016, the service was known domestically as Rhapsody before rebranding as Napster, the same name brand that was used by Roxio's Napster .
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.
On June 1, 1999, Fanning released a preliminary beta program of Napster and soon, hundreds of college students at Northeastern were trading music. [2] Sean Parker was the co-founder. They got the name from Shawn's Harwich High School nickname "Nappy", in reference to his hair texture.
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 ...