rip.so :: the digital graveyard
rip.so
A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

Some that might interest folks here:

  • Real Player - The inventors of streaming & the poster child for enshittification
  • iRiver - perhaps the first major MP3 (and OGG!) player. DRM & iTunes not required.
  • Napster - P2P for the early adopters
  • KaZaA, Limewire & Bearshare - P2P for the masses. (And BTW the source of my user name: klu9 = KaZaA Lite User 9)
  • MP3.com - At first indie artists uploading their own materials, then users uploading their own CDs
  • Radio.Blog.Club - Embed an MP3 in your blog
  • Grooveshark - Streaming all music
  • Usenet - A shadow of its former self but still a bastion of binaries

Personally, got started with Audiogalaxy, went all in with Morpheus & KaZaA Lite. Loved Grooveshark, discovered so much there. Still have a few RMVB (Real Media Variable Bitrate) videos burned on DVD-Rs somewhere.

  • Vengefu1 Tuna@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    It’s so weird seeing their name out in the wild. I’ve never met anyone who’s heard of them. I had a couple of their mp3 players and they were fantastic!