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.

  • Overspark@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I would have expected that too, but they say:

    the specific thing that died is not usenet itself. it is usenet as a service your isp gave you.

    • klu9@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Which meant people had to actively find & pay for a Usenet provider. Which they didn’t do when there were so many additional venues to discuss things online for free.

      • Overspark@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Honestly the barrier to entry of Usenet was always high, finding a working Usenet provider only made it slightly harder in a world where everything lives in your browser.