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Think about how many different apps you likely use

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to stay in touch with your friends and coworkers. WhatsApp, Metas Messenger, DMs on Instagram,

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and X, Microsoft Teams, so your manager can tell you how disappointed they are.

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And back in the late 90s and early 2000s, things weren't all that different,

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in that it was common to have your contacts spread out over several platforms.

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Think AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger.

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That's why the first program that Gen Z won't remember

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is Trillion. I don't remember, I don't know what that is. Don't include that though.

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It'll undercut everything. You see, unlike today,

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running all of those messaging clients at once could actually affect performance on your PC,

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meaning Trillion was a welcome solution as it supported multiple popular chat platforms

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in one client, while putting contacts in one list

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to make the experience more seamless than having four separate programs open.

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This made Trillion quite popular, but it also opened it up to disputes

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with these platforms. In fact, AOL and Yahoo both blocked Trillion

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from connecting to their instant messaging networks at different points. But ironically, Trillion is still around,

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while these other legacy chat clients are now history.

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As direct messaging became integrated into social media platforms,

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where you likely had a larger friends list, and cloud software suites from companies

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like Google and Apple, there wasn't as much of a need

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for totally separate messaging programs. But Trillion survived by marketing itself

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as a more secure solution for healthcare environments

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that handle people's personal information. It does, however, still have a logo

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that looks like it's from a late 90s soda commercial.

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What can you do? If you were one of the many music lovers

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that was looking for a way to download songs after the original version of Napster was forced offline

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following a court decision, there was a good chance you were using Kazaa.

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Oh yeah, I know about this one. A common sight on computers during the early 2000s,

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Kazaa was a Napster-like peer-to-peer file sharing program

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that allowed people to download music and video stored on other people's PCs.

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But unlike Napster, Kazaa did not keep a centralized list

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of every file on the network. Instead, Kazaa's directories were on client PCs

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called super nodes, basically just computers with better performance

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and faster internet connections than average. This meant that the Kazaa network was more distributed

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than Napsters, which the developers hoped would make it more difficult for the recording industry

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to hit them with lawsuits. Plot twist, Kazaa got into legal trouble anyway.

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And not only that, but the users did as well

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with the Recording Industry Association of America coming after unsuspecting users

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who had left their music libraries available for upload.

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Many of these users had to cough up around 3,000 bucks each

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in order to settle out of court. Kazaa did still try to write itself

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after the lawsuits by becoming a legitimate online storefront

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for legal music, but the public never really warmed up to it.

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Napster already had much more mind share in that space

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after they went legit, and Kazaa was already known for bundling

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a large amount of spyware and adware, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence

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that they'd handle people's money well. Of course, there were plenty of other similar file sharing

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programs, Bear Share, Lime Wire, Morpheus.

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But as the 2000s went on, the Recording Industry began to leverage

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the popularity of online music and legal alternatives started to pop up.

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Whether it was 99 cent MP3 downloads from iTunes

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or early streaming services like Groove Shark or Songza,

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which was absorbed into Google Play Music, which was ultimately replaced by YouTube music.

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Oh, Google. How long will that be here? Who knows? This meant that Peer to Peer was dying out around 2010,

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but Napster's legal streaming service is actually still around.

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And if you're wondering why we talked about Kazaa instead of them,

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it's because we actually have another episode where we talk about Napster

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and a couple of other old school programs. So go check out that video next.

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