Music & Audio · Recorded milestone
Peer-to-peer music sharing
Recorded year1999
Shawn Fanning's Napster lets millions swap MP3 songs directly between their computers, upending the record industry.
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- World Wide WebRecorded · 1991enables
- MP3 audioRecorded · 1993enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.