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Did any of you use Napster? (I mean the real Napster in 1998-2001, not the current monthly-subscription music one.) Specifically, the chat room feature of the original one. Napster chat was special because it had chat rooms dedicated to various music types. It was interesting to see how various age groups populated the rooms. The 70's rooms were mostly empty (too old for online chatting?), the Alt (90's) rooms were full of foul language, ALL-CAPS posts, and fights (too immature?), but the 80's rooms were great. The fun part was, for each person in the room, you could look at their shared-music list. It was a cool feature to see how much you had in common with the musical tastes of others in the room.
The first thing you learned when joining a room was that Napster used "servers" for their network, and each server had its own chat rooms, all with the same names. Each time you logged on to Napster, you might be on a different server, and the 80's room had a whole different list of visitors from the last time you logged on. A program called Napigator let you see the list of Napster servers and to choose the same server (and specific chat rooms) each time you logged on. My server of choice was rockandroll. the rockandroll 80's room has a great group of friendly people online every day, until Napster got shut down. If you were there, you knew me as "junkmailbox" or "Chris-junk".
I have not found anything like the old Napster yet...
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