![]() I wanted to turn every knob, press every button. It looked like my Rat distortion pedal or Boss DD-3. I remember thinking, “Whoever made this has to be a musician.” More specifically, they had to be a guitar player. ![]() In 2000, most Windows and third-party applications felt impenetrable, but Winamp felt real. ![]() A booming (ironic) voice would say, “ Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass.” That would be Winamp, of course.įrom the second you opened it, you knew Winamp was something different. What would become my professional career also began: I wrote my first line of HTML, built my first website, downloaded my first MP3 from Napster, and fell in love for the first time with a software application. My shitty rock band recorded and released its first (and final) studio album. In 2000, I graduated from high school and used the gift money to buy my first personal computer. ![]() It’s also because Winamp was a key part of what it was like to come of age right at the end of the millennium (and first tech bubble). It’s not just because Winamp (with an assist from Mandy Moore) set me on the path that led me to become head of design at the streaming music service Rdio. AOL will officially shut down Winamp on Friday, and I’m sad about it. ![]()
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