Technology nostalgia is about as grand as it is useless. New tech comes in and the world grows an incredible short term memory. For example, think back a ways before the days of iTunes. Remember burning CDs all the time? Well, between those two time periods, Winamp was the sweetest source of online music. With the rights purchased by AOL in 1999, Winamp was one of the most accessible and abused multimedia players for a good portion of the last half of the nineties. It was one of the only sources to play back all your online music for years. It’s been a while since Apple had reduced it to a long ago memory, but it’s about to be phased out completely. Winamp will cease to exist as of December 20th, 2013
Winamp was originally created by a company called Nullsoft. The founder, Justin Frankel, sold the company to AOL when he was barely out of his teens. It sold for tens of millions of dollars. Justin Frankel now owns and operates a company called Cockos out of New York. Winamp isn’t the only thing AOL has pulled the plug on recently. Within the past year, a number of various AOL music sites and sources have been dropping off. Photo: Jay Kogami Source : http://www.inroadpress.com/aol-to-permanently-shut-down-winamp/
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