This was the era before the iPod, before iTunes, and before streaming. It was the time of Winamp, Napster (which would launch a few years later in 1999), and painstakingly slow downloads over dial-up connections. A user named "Sanump3" likely spent hours waiting for a single song to download, curating a library that felt more valuable than gold.

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