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Do you remember when downloading a single song to your desktop computer took literal hours?

Are you a fan of teenagers inventing illegal technology?

If you still have burned CD mixes that you downloaded from your Napster playlist, you might be a Xennial. And we are too.

Katie and Dani share their own experience using Napster from 1999 - 2001 and talk about how the platform paved the way for modern streaming giants like Spotify and Apple Music.

And decide for yourself just HOW illegal it actually was -- and what music artists actually liked having Napster share their songs.

This episode was made possible by the following sources:

Napster: The Day Music was Set Free (via The Guardian)

A Short History of Napster (Via LifeWire)

Napster: The File-Sharing Service that Started It All? (via NPR)

Napster (via Wikipedia)

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