How many people even liked the old Napster

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

People always say in there reviews its just like the OLD napster how many people liked it or even tried it I made a poll to see

[BloodySabbath]

Napster was awesome. And not only because it was the pioneer of the p2p platform, but because if it still existed today it would be a viable client. The sheer amount of music available on Napster at its peak was tremendous, something rivaled only by AG. Sure, it might not have had multi-source download, hashing, or encryption, but you could still get your files fast, and without waiting in a Que for hours.

[123_kid]

i agree. napster is the father of file sharing for the masses. it didn't have a lot of features but it worked. look at all the file sharing programs that have names patterned after napster. grokster, blubster, mynapster, myster. i just wish i could have used it with broadband...

[PatientSaint]

Yeah i liked the old Napster it was very user friendly and had great music selection. I also met some interesting people on the server chats as well. As for how it would be today i can't say i am sure it would at least have queing and multidownloading. I'm sure it'd kept up well as P2P evolves. But as the original goes was the best.

[PowerMan57two]

I agree too, Napster was the best. It's what started p2p sharing, I loved the interace, and it was the easiest one out there.. I THINK all new p2p programs that are released should just like the old napster, that was the best setup. so far Blubster, and winmx kind of look like it.

[Music Pirate]

I think Napster was the greatest program, you could find all the music new and old on it. Didn't have to worry about spyware/adware or any popup/banner ads. It was fast, easy and it was the place to go to find anything you where looking for. It just set the standards for all p2p programs.

[55330892]

Before the problems Napster had, it really was the best file sharing program.

There were tremendous files from everywhere in the world, songs from different cultures.

Possibility of choosing the bitrate and adding users to hotlists. There was also information on users connection speed, availability and multiple connection support.

What could have you asked more? Everything you were looking for was there. I mean... I don't understand why some people voted that they didn't like it... It has no sense. Except if it wasn't working on your computer but anyway, this doesn't mean it wasn't good, so no reason of voting a negative rating.....


Audiogalaxy did a good job also... too bad we're getting rid of the bests:wings :wings :wings :wings

[Class316]

For finding old stuff, nothing ever beat napster! Not now, not then!! All the RIAA did was make it hard for me to get old stuff and rare stuff. Mainstream stuff is still easy to get.

[Crazy Horse]

With Napster and AudioGalaxy I got every file I could think of . Rare, obscure it didn't matter it was there. I only wish I had DSL then. I had a dial up modem and the downloads were painfully slow. I did meet some really great people on those programs but onward and foward. Where the hell is those new versions of Bluster, Filetopia, FileNavigator & WinMx already?!?!

[Music Pirate]

Originally posted by Crazy Horse
....Where the hell is those new versions of Bluster, Filetopia, FileNavigator & WinMx already?!?!
Yeah I am also worrying about the new versions too. Both Blubster and Filetopia are taking the longest it seems.

[TC75580]

And Pablo at Blubster said it would only be a few days till 2.0's official release (that was about two weeks ago now).

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

I geuss you all like napster

[backmann]

Of course. Back when it worked, you could find anything you wanted there. I can't see the variety of mp3s that Napster had in any of today's file sharing programs.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

[Karizmatik]

'R u kiddin' ?! Tha Ol' Napster waz off tha heezy.

[hawkburn]

Napster started it all, and it was very stable, but at that time i only had MSN dialup. Right when I got DSL Napster was in the shutting down face and KaZaA was rising into the all powerful state it is today, same with Morpheus but then it changed to Gnutella and that was the end for Morpheus

[psychotronic420]

I loved Napster especially when used in conjunction with Napigator, I got many many MB of music from Napster, and like Crazy Horse I wish I had broadband back then, I wonder how the network would have progressed if they had a full compliment of broadband users logged in.

Napster was the shiznit, and in bizarro world Napster is now legal and used widely.

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[Wheelz_Off]

It was the best becuase that was before colleges blocked file-sharing, which meant fast downloads for jsut about everyone. I cant count how many cds I got from college users, it was insane, that's why it was so good to me. Now just about every major college has blocked filesharing so cable and dsl uploaders are stuck with the task of sending all the data, which is why everything is so much slower. If only it didn't have central servers to shut down, we could still be flying high with napser.

[evilmegaman]

Why does everyone seem to forget about napster and wine about audio galaxy? Don't they remember Napster?

[whiff]

although there were periodic down-times and certain versions were very unstable, the selection of music, the chat feature and the hotlists were pretty damn slamming. i wound up in lengthy conversations with people from around the world - a real music community. RIP, Napster.

[-Huize-]

Napster was the best, it wasfast stable, userfriendly had a huge number of files. and with napigator u could see the "community" of people that hang on certain servers. To me and to many others napster was more then a filesharing client, it was a second home where u could hang and relax.

Its to bad that a few wankers took it over in the end and messesd it up, after that the riaa came and well they SUCK donkeyballz aswell

[Havoc]

editttttttt

[wonderboy2005]

i loved napster. at first, i only had a 28.8 dial up and that sucked, but about 2-3 months b4 it went down i got cable. i was in heaven! the downloads were very fast and you could find anything. then, napster went down. it was a sad time. there wasnt anything comperable. fasttrack only had 15 thousand users on at a time, most of which didnt share much anyways. it took a good deal of time before ft hit critical mass, but here we are today, and FT is facing the same fate as napster. i think it will be different now tho. once FT is gone(id be willing to bet that will happen soon) there will still be other p2p programs. the RIAA/MPAA should realize this. we will share. period. once FT is gone, a program that is just starting now, will become its replacement. but which will it be? there are so many now. winmx, blubster, gnutella, direct connect, xnet, filetopia, fileshare, etc. these listed are probly the most viable, but who knows? if piratings history can tell us anything, it can only get better. lets hope history is right.

[Sephiroth]

Napster is the most exgerrated File Sharing program of all time.. Ive used napster since it first started and there were only two servers to connect too and no more than 3000 people on it total.

It did beat the hell out of the other methods at that time though. P2P was not invented by napster it was just made more popular by it. I think the overall potential that P2P has to offer is so great that it would have probably all happened even if napster didnt existed. It just would have just took alot longer to get were it is today.

Of course napster was great with speed because it was centralized which is also why it got shut down..

People forget the junk mp3 files which were either fake files, misnamed, or having audible defects in them..

Also forget that there was no multi source downloads so downloads were only as fast as the person your getting it from.

Because it delt with one file type instead of multiple types like today's file sharing networks it made swapping of that one type alot easier and more efficent and did not face many of the challanges of other networks.

They also forget the horrible chat and Instant message feature.. Chat was a online hellhole and instant messages were IMHO a equal annoyance, people flaming you and sending you status updates and expecting you to do the same to you was getting out of hand.. Also hotlisting which sucked if a newbie "hotlisted" you and queued 50 of your files to download all at the same time.

Personally I liked Scour more...

Also i would like to point out to people who werent at napster during its run or at the very end.. Napster and File Sharing isnt about pirating. Back then and any true P2P support now is not here to hurt the musicians or people who the works that we enjoy. This is Not about piracy.. From the beginning the tradegroups have been pushing this image that file sharing is all about piracy and thats all and sadly alot of people here have made that true and it only tells me that the trade groups are and probably have been for quite some time have been influencing the P2P community to their views and have been successful.

Most P2P users just want a fair deal for online content and content in general without feeling bullied and without restrictions like DRM and without having to pay ridiculeous prices. This i think also or will also extend to other issues than just P2P in the future and how it ends up with affect alot in the future.. One thing that people should not do is to ignore the issues because they are arrogant enough to have the attitude "I dont care what happens ill just get around it someways." My point is that you shouldnt have too.

[jonny5]

I liked both napster and scour back in the day.

[Borgster]

I really loved Napster when it was at its peak, infact Napster isn't dead, just go to ZeroPaid's Napigator Page (http://zeropaid.com/napigator) and for a short description on the OpenNap protocol which the old 2.0 versions connect to. If you want some product info, go to http://opennap.sourceforge.net If you need a version of Napster to connect to opennap go to www.oldversion.com

[12345678910]

I Can Still Remember The Warm, Fuzzy Feeling I Got When I Opened Up Napster On My 56k. Oh Wait.......I Still Have 56k....:mellow

[AnimeDood]

i liked it.

[MorningSon]

i liked it, it had the qualities of a good p2p network, size, amount of files, rarity, ease of use

the only thing is that it was missing some of the features that todays programs utilize, multi-source downloading, server-less network, multiple file type sharing, etc

[MoonMan]

Napster was cool because (and I know this was its down fall) it was fast to get a song because of the central server.... and if I can remember correctly I ran a shitty 486 with 64 megs of ram and a 5 gig hard drive with Napster and had no problem.. that's a problem with todays file sharing clients (KaZaA, XoloX, etc), they are RESOURCE HOGS. Never once did I crash with Napster, and man do I miss the Anime chat room... those were the days..

[Azo-999]

Voted Napster - Was good until the gowernment attacs made them to stop it. (It's coming back within next year - have read from their secure forums - and it's gonna be better than ever)

Music (and File) Sharing seems to be more bad than biological weapons and international terrorism - Jesus how much man-hours and other resources are spent to try to stop us ordinary people to be or become "criminals". Music producers and their organisations are all the time trying to get their spoon at our soap. I have downloaded tens of spoiled music pieces at KaZaA - thanks GOD I listen them all after downloads with WinAmp (scrolling fast through) and when I hear a spoiled one I just go back to search another source and D/L it again. They are there sharing their grap as ordinary users (with fast connection and many D/L spots - be aware those "terrorists".)
By the way - I haven't buyed a single single or CD for 5 Years. I get what I want from local library, even new ones within 1 month of waiting (and 1$ / each for reserving if must get faster). The rest I get from FastTrack or some webpages. I do Not have money, so the companies loses nothing in my case, do they?

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[HansG]

Before Napster I was getting my stuff from private FTP servers, running one myself... back in those days you didn't really look for something you wanted, rather you looked at the stuff available when you managed to get onto an ftp site!

Then... there was Napster. I loved it! I have downloaded so many songs on Napster, it's absolutely incredible. Since it was the only P2P network in the beginning, everyone interested in music was on there and it had the biggest spread of music ever to be seen. Even nowadays when we have Kazaa, I still can't find a lot of songs at all.

I remember when Napster was about to shut down... with those filters in place and all. I used those final days to try and get as many songs as I could, all the while noticing more and more files becoming unavailable. And then the first chapter in P2P was closed.

I feel priviledged to have been part of the Napster community :-)

[Azo-999]

"I feel priviledged to have been part of the Napster community :-)"

So do I - Happy Days, Happy days (I did like Fonzie & Richie too)
Now they're both making good films / TV-Series...

Can't just wait to see "The New XXSter" makin' comeback as all good ones do...

Peace & Health & Happy p2p with all these new SW we have !

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[guido123]

Im wondering...

Napster had about a hundred central servers: did napster search just one of these servers or did it always search the entire network?

[-Huize-]

from what i remember the server were lined and the files were all together , only the chatrooms were sperated, dont know for sure tho

[zebi]

Does anyone still has napster?
If so, could you send it to me,i just want to see how it looks like.

[guido123]

Originally posted by zebi
Does anyone still has napster?
If so, could you send it to me,i just want to see how it looks like.

You can download every version of napster made from the napjunk napster archive:

http://www.napjunk.net/guides/napster_archive.php

And from oldversions.com:

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=napster

You can still use napster to connect to open nap servers: but you need to use napigator to do so.

[RainDancer]

I really liked the old Napster, it was a really cool site. You could find almost any music file. I was really disappointed when they had to change it. It was such a drag that they had to mess it up.

[mr-g]

I have some great memories of Napster myself - I was still on dial - up when I started using it and found it worked best about 4:00 AM, when the internet wasn't so bogged down.Would get up very early to start downloading old rare blues and classic rock.It was a great resource for rare files.When I switched to a cable modem I still remember how amazed I was that that little grey status bar went flying so damned fast.The last few months after the riaa attack caused the filtering I still got a ton of files because everyone renamed a lot and you could also get _ALBW (albumwrap albums) or do a search for complete albums and still browse your favorites.Also could browse and IM users on WinMx at the same time.As the Dead said, "What a long strange trip it's been."

[notbob]

No everyone hated napster--that's why everyone is still yapping about a program that's been dead for 2 years

did anyone really like it--what an idiotic question

70 million people semed to like it

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

No everyone hated napster--that's why everyone is still yapping about a program that's been dead for 2 years
Is this all you do is bitch. Your always bitching. Do you have any friends or do you have some that bitch to? you have never said that somthing good or positive, all you do is bitch SHUT UP!!! Cry ass

[notbob]

it's called sarcasm--i can't help it if it's too advanced for you, but i don't feel it necessary to "dumb it down" for everyone else

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

it's called sarcasm--i can't help it if it's too advanced for you, but i don't feel it necessary to "dumb it down" for everyone else
well smart ass, it seems people are replying and not bitching but your the only dumbass here bitching. damn you are a cry ass.

[The Hunter]

:mellow Hey Yoda nothing personal, it is just at times you think you are being attacked, but you are not. notbob was just making a point that as that many people used it, it was obviously liked.
Now if you had asked how many people liked it in comparison to newer programs the answer would be a lot different. Take it easy and keep working on your site. All the best.

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

Hey Yoda nothing personal, it is just at times you think you are being attacked, but you are not. notbob was just making a point that as that many people used it, it was obviously liked.
Yes I know but Notbob is always bitching about me. It seems to always be me. But oh well what can I do?

[notbob]

yeah i bitch about all kinds of people--don't take it too hard

i used to beat on wonderboy 2005 too, but i have no reason to now that his posts have improved

think before you hit send -- that's all i ask

replying to threads with thoughtful comments can be more than enough, you don't have to start 100 threads (i think i have started 3!)

know what i mean?

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

yea I make to many threads, I will admit that. But I have lots of questions. Like what program should I use. I can never figure that stuff out by myself. Yes I have crappy spelling. Maybe we should get a spell check or somthing.

[Azo-999]

Originally posted by Yodashady
yea I make to many threads, I will admit that. But I have lots of questions. Like what program should I use. I can never figure that stuff out by myself. Yes I have crappy spelling. Maybe we should get a spell check or somthing.

1st of all - I hate Nobody - So U're not at MY list.. :wings

Yeah - NotBob (Scrubby Old Man) is a good commentator for all of us. There must be some criticism at the threads - it makes us feel better and better all the time. I'm personally a little masochistic so gimme punishment - I beg - I beg... ;-)

A Psellinkg Zcheckhard? Yes - hope that ZP puts some A.I. in these forums to autoread and correct our "baad anglais"....
I write quite a cleanly when I'm not in a hurry, but the bad thing is that I AM almost always at some "self-made hurry" situation...

P.S Nice to "see" U all after a 5 dayz break - I broke my XP (actually my HD Partition 0), tried to install from 1 week old backup over and over again eventually realizing that I have to Surface Check that HD and Bad Sectors were found at start clusters - no wonder that it didn't work. But eventually back in business again ;-)

P.P.S This poll was about Napster. Yes I did like it a lot. Say, if it would be available today, with my 512K ADSL I would get all I want much faster than at these FFFF (65535) P2's...

Peace and Happy waiting for the newcoming Napster. Allow 6 months and U see...!

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[pearljam]

i really liked the old napster it was fun and u could chat with pepole about music and see if they had music to download and it was friendlier and more efficiant
metallica

[HansG]

I agree, people were a lot friendlier... you could find yourself in a chat when you were downloading a piece of music that was quite rare.

It could also be time, as it passes your memories become... coloured. Ahhh good old Napster, loved those days! I wish I had realised it's potential earlier, back in the early days of Napster I thought "hmmmm, okay... occassionaly this is nice but I'm going back to FTP"... if I had gone there earlier and stayed there my collection would have been a lot bigger! In my case I came back when Napster started to be used by a lot more people, like Blubster is today... I stayed then until the end.

Support Blubster people, it's growing fast. Went from 40,000 on average to 85,000 on average now...

[Jared592]

Napster was awesome when it first came out in Fall '99 (I think). I remember searching for a music program after hearing of some crap called Abes MP3 Finder...Upon looking around and somehow ending up on Sonicspot.com, I had two choices (this is '99): Napster and the original WinMX. I chose Napster and it was great! I loved when the buzz started later on and news reports referred to it as a SITE where you could find copyrighted music...that always cracked me up...It really let you know that they had no idea what the hell they were talking about... :-P

[Azo-999]

SO WE ALL MISS GOOD OLD NAPSTER. !!!

Nice to see so much melancholics day-dreams about it and the "good ol'e days.."

But as years goes passing by, maybe after 2 years we miss Kazaa and WinMX at some other forum in a thread like this.
(I really hope that ZP is still running then, only forums and news changed a bit... to stay at "the nerves of the time")

We just have to realize that nothing lasts forever (nowadays a year is a long time for one app...).

Try DC++ - I have tried it now for 2 weeks and found that it beats Kazaa / xxDonkeys / WinMX in many ways! Just have to share 20-200 Gigs of MP's/Videos/Apps/xxxx's to get into good hubs...
It shows user's files as an win explorer - U can browse what U want and put it to DL. If user's gone just find more sources and the DL continues. i've got not a single broken file at my testing time.
I feel DC++ is a new "napster" for me...

Peace and Good Day-Dreams to all... ;-)

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[CCSDUDE]

Napster was the best.....nothing will ever top it IMHO. I mean fuck I met some pretty cool people in the chats. Swapped music/swapped what bands were good/"traded" songs. Ahhh....RIP old friend......*gets teary* sniff sniff......


Anyway glad to see your back Azo, we all thought you died LOL



Peace all, Later

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by pearljam
whoever posted this pole is the dumbest man to ever live on planet earth

How ironic......heh

Dig yourself in deeper....it's funny to watch a fool 'do his thing'.

[Azo-999]

Originally posted by CCSDUDE
Napster was the best.....nothing will ever top it IMHO. I mean fuck I met some pretty cool people in the chats. Swapped music/swapped what bands were good/"traded" songs. Ahhh....RIP old friend......*gets teary* sniff sniff......
Anyway glad to see your back Azo, we all thought you died LOL
Peace all, Later

WOW - Your Posts Counter! Hope no laming ;-)

If I don't love U (cause I'm a man), I Really love Ur Avatar ;-)
Those Big-Eyed Japaneze Gals R just for my taste! Njammy...
(Hope they come alive at some day somewhere in a virtual worlds of future...)

Try DC++ (if not tried yet). All U said are true there nowadays. Nice people, nice chats etc...(Must find a good server first, because at some srvs there are LoL 10 Years old Sht-talkers full of..But that was true at Napster as well!)

Peace All - Now! ("Still Alive and Well - Johnny Winter")

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[Azo-999]

Originally posted by pearljam
whoever posted this pole is the dumbest man to ever live on planet earth

I Don't like Pearl Jam's Style of Heavy. If U like it it's up to You. Whatta hex did Ur comment mean. That was simply laming : Nothing to say at a single line. Lamers go to children forums. So follow me up and do it...;-)

Peace even to You!

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[Skeptikal]

... And still rocks in our memories !
Now--- let's see what can G2 or RapidRoad can do...
:fire

[wingnut2600]

Napster was the first strong p2p client and truly had a wonderful chat client with an interesting demographic using it (that usually would not have chatted), but it's memory is far from the truth.

It had the worst thing in the whole world going for it.... It did not resume downloads!!! I burn a cd sometimes and use a mp3 that I got from Napster, and I can tell, because it is missing the end. Plus, people used to use god-awful ripping tech so that there were always clicks and glitches in songs.

It was a good community, but even the current gnutella or FastTrack network is far superior.

I am far more fond of the late, great, Audiogalaxy... now there ws a perfect program with an unreal community... I never had any problems with this prog., so simple and easy to use.... and no leeching probs because you could just leave it on all the time and what you had in your shared folder was shared with others. It was great for 56kers too.

Sentimentality sometimes skews the vision of the past. Look at the past without your eyes clouded and you will see the truth.

[and1_corey]

napster was the best. fasttrack is only better becuz u can download ne type of file. and it has many more users. but if napster was still around i would use it. as i am sure many other zP users would. :fire

[Azo-999]

Thank You VERY MUCH "ThreadMasters" to taking lame posts off from these threads. Hope U Follow all "PearlJam's" and other Kids posts and just cut them off.
Or could it be so, that mr. Pearl decided to delete it all by himself? Bad conscience of talkin' nons?

I Agree wingnut2600's opinions of not looking too far backwards. It can finally happen that we see something like my todays Avatar (much too far back in the cradle..)
Let's live this day moment by moment and enjoy what we got now! We have a lot to do with nowadays apps, most of them beats Good Ol' Napster 300%. And if need to chat, just open mIRC, find a good room and start to talk, invite privately, use Buddies, use AIM, whatever. With mIRC only I can nowadays do more than with old Napster. Share files and music, chat, DL apps etc with a good speed. And the quality Q - Yes it was poor then and pop-hiss-cuts everywhere....

I could start a new melancholy thread here somewhere for all us "older" members to remember the Year 1996, mIRC's first workin' release. It was a start for joining peoples together by chatting all over the world thanks to Mr. Khaled.
Here's his memories to all of us :


"One day, seven years ago, in a small, quiet room by myself, I stood in front of a canvas, picked up a brush, and began to work on a painting, dabbing here and there, not really knowing what I was going to create, or how.

A few years later, I put my brush down for a moment to pause for breath, look around, and find that I'm now in a different room, a much bigger one, filled with all kinds of people, with colors and sounds, and with other paintings, bigger and smaller than mine; some of the people are standing in front of me, close to my canvas, touching and smudging it, others are behind me looking at my painting from a distance; some are standing right next to me, telling me which colors to use or how to hold my brush, and criticising me whenever I make a mistake, and a few are working on parts of the painting all by themselves.

mIRC is still a personal work for me, and I think I've managed to keep working on it in the same spirit as when it all started; a mixture of fun, learning, and contribution. I've spent the last few years being part of a remarkable community made up of people from all over our planet, and that, in no small way, is part of what has kept me enjoying it, and believing in it.

It hasn't been easy reconciling mIRC as a personal work with its public use; I've had to learn to treat some aspects of it impersonally, which I'm not happy about, eg. I now use a pre-written reply to emails that ask the most common questions; if I tried to answer every email, I'd have little time for anything else.

I've also had to learn to accept criticism, which is hard for something that's personal; but mIRC wouldn't be where it is today without help from many people over the years.

I still enjoy working on mIRC, I am a bit more tired now but I think there may be a year or two left in me yet. I still get nervous before releasing a new version, which is probably a good sign :-) I hope you enjoy it.

I hope that mIRC has, in some way, helped to make the world a smaller, better place.

Khaled "


That is said nicely, Khaled - and I love Your creatings and give my Greetings to Your Hard work. This kind of job is much more innotative than 3 dozens of napsters, that didn't live long....

Peace and Memories - Let's Share more than just our files, just read the signature ;-)

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[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by Azo-999
Thank You VERY MUCH "ThreadMasters" to taking lame posts off from these threads. Hope U Follow all "PearlJam's" and other Kids posts and just cut them off.
Or could it be so, that mr. Pearl decided to delete it all by himself? Bad conscience of talkin' nons?

I Agree wingnut2600's opinions of not looking too far backwards. It can finally happen that we see something like my todays Avatar (much too far back in the cradle..)
Let's live this day moment by moment and enjoy what we got now! We have a lot to do with nowadays apps, most of them beats Good Ol' Napster 300%. And if need to chat, just open mIRC, find a good room and start to talk, invite privately, use Buddies, use AIM, whatever. With mIRC only I can nowadays do more than with old Napster. Share files and music, chat, DL apps etc with a good speed. And the quality Q - Yes it was poor then and pop-hiss-cuts everywhere....

I could start a new melancholy thread here somewhere for all us "older" members to remember the Year 1996, mIRC's first workin' release. It was a start for joining peoples together by chatting all over the world thanks to Mr. Khaled.
Here's his memories to all of us :


"One day, seven years ago, in a small, quiet room by myself, I stood in front of a canvas, picked up a brush, and began to work on a painting, dabbing here and there, not really knowing what I was going to create, or how.

A few years later, I put my brush down for a moment to pause for breath, look around, and find that I'm now in a different room, a much bigger one, filled with all kinds of people, with colors and sounds, and with other paintings, bigger and smaller than mine; some of the people are standing in front of me, close to my canvas, touching and smudging it, others are behind me looking at my painting from a distance; some are standing right next to me, telling me which colors to use or how to hold my brush, and criticising me whenever I make a mistake, and a few are working on parts of the painting all by themselves.

mIRC is still a personal work for me, and I think I've managed to keep working on it in the same spirit as when it all started; a mixture of fun, learning, and contribution. I've spent the last few years being part of a remarkable community made up of people from all over our planet, and that, in no small way, is part of what has kept me enjoying it, and believing in it.

It hasn't been easy reconciling mIRC as a personal work with its public use; I've had to learn to treat some aspects of it impersonally, which I'm not happy about, eg. I now use a pre-written reply to emails that ask the most common questions; if I tried to answer every email, I'd have little time for anything else.

I've also had to learn to accept criticism, which is hard for something that's personal; but mIRC wouldn't be where it is today without help from many people over the years.

I still enjoy working on mIRC, I am a bit more tired now but I think there may be a year or two left in me yet. I still get nervous before releasing a new version, which is probably a good sign :-) I hope you enjoy it.

I hope that mIRC has, in some way, helped to make the world a smaller, better place.

Khaled "


That is said nicely, Khaled - and I love Your creatings and give my Greetings to Your Hard work. This kind of job is much more innotative than 3 dozens of napsters, that didn't live long....

Peace and Memories - Let's Share more than just our files, just read the signature ;-)

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While I agree with all of that....Napster had a homely feel to it. It was like a 'buddy' of sorts. Rather then some big CO. trying to make a dime off people... (kazaa - ect.) it was what it was log on get a username find music and try and find new music through speaking to others and sharing files on a more personal level. I know it had it's problems but for all it's faults it made up in 'heart' so RIP ol' buddy.....


Azo: My avatar is of a 10 year old lesbian who would blow the world up to be with her 'one and only'. But that's another storie....LOL

Tomoyo x Sakura.....ahhh such a kawaii little couple even if there 10....it's silly to watch her fawn over Sakura. (More of a crush/love thing rather then a sexual thing - so don't go flaming if you haven't seen CCS).


Peace all, Later

[Azo-999]

So I love 10 year old lesbian cartoon-girl from Nippon?
I must take my hammer and hit to my brains (that's how the pains in my back will stop ;-)
Napster, Napster - This Thread could last 4ever....:wings
But U said R.I.P., so that's all folks.

P.S. Not watched CCS, dude - maybe some fine day....

Peace Before, Now & Later !

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[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by Azo-999
So I love 10 year old lesbian cartoon-girl from Nippon?
I must take my hammer and hit to my brains (that's how the pains in my back will stop ;-)
Napster, Napster - This Thread could last 4ever....:wings
But U said R.I.P., so that's all folks.

P.S. Not watched CCS, dude - maybe some fine day....

Peace Before, Now & Later !

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Eh, seems like everyone I know says Tomoyo has that 'cute' 'innocent' look....so they like it. Don't even care that shes 10 in the show....LOL.....I'm guessing it's cuz it's a cartoon so it's not freaky or odd.....but that can be challanged by someone whose all moral and hates all the fun things in life! LOL


Yup, Napster is 6 feet under....*tosses flower on Napsters grave* good bye!

Yea, I doubt you'll get your hands on CCS over there....too bad your missing out! You can find it on KL if you try hard enough....so if ya'll are curious about it check 'em out.


Peace all, Later