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Feb 13, 2001 · Shawn Fanning grew up in Massachussetts, living in Harwich during his high school years. Up until 1996, Shawn's attention had focused on sports, playing baseball, basketball and tennis. Then his uncle John Fanning gave him a computer and access to the internet. He soon gave up these outdoor interests to concentrate on surfing the net.
May 21, 2000 · Six months ago, Shawn Fanning was just another 19-year-old college kid. Then he invented a piece of software called Napster. Now he's rich, famous, and being sued by his favourite band.
Nov 3, 2003 · Shawn Fanning, a teenager at Northeastern University with a bent for computer technology, built Napster in 1999... What the Napster experience can teach entrepreneurs. 11/3/2003 With the reemergence last week of Napster, it's worth going back to read All the Rave, a behind-the-scenes peek at the rise and incineration of the famously failed file ...
Mar 19, 2013 · 14 years later, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are older and wiser, but no less passionate about their original mission to give people access to the music they want, when they want it. .Biz caught ...
Feb 23, 2011 · Napster had been around since 1999, when Shawn Fanning and his uncle sunk some money into a music-distribution business and let a kid named Sean Parker hop onboard as a business partner.
Jul 26, 2019 · Shawn Fanning had the code complete by spring 1999, and Napster was launched that June. By October, the program had 4 million songs in circulation. BY REID CREAGER. It began in an internet chatroom. Such a scenario conjures any number of images, from an unlikely love story to an episode of “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.”
Sep 24, 2000 · Follow @TIME. At dawn, Shawn Fanning lay on the brown carpet in the shadow of a converted bar counter, consumed by the idea. He had been awake 60 straight hours writing code on his notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became ...
