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Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by wp381640 on Friday January 29, 2021 @10:57PM (#25965883)
Kinda funny small-world stuff that Justin Frankel (Winamp + Gnutella) went onto AOL/TimeWarner and got into a feud with an exec he wrote a passive-aggressive blog post about without naming him. The exec was Chamath Palihapitiya.

Justin was and always will be a legend - he wrote an AOL Messsenger ad blocker and mp3 search plugin _while working at AOL_

Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by nostrademons on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:30PM (#25966068)
And Gnutella, too. I still remember hurrying to download it when it came out because I knew that Justin worked at AOL/TimeWarner and it was going to get taken down on Monday as soon as the powers that be realized someone had written a piracy app. Luckily people had mirrored it, and eventually ended up reverse-engineering the protocol.
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by noloblo on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:47AM (#25970567)
is there a link to the blog post? of Justin writing about unnamed exec
Re:u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania by wp381640 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:31AM (#25977757)
I tried finding it - even went into archive and couldn’t - sorry!