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Re:Sad but true: Napster '99 still smokes Spotify 2012 by link2009 on Saturday March 17, 2012 @12:26PM (#3717408)
You had Internet2 in '99?
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Re:Sad but true: Napster '99 still smokes Spotify 2012 by maukdaddy on Saturday March 17, 2012 @02:19PM (#3717701)
Yeah via Abilene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_Network

.edu to .edu transfer was unbelievably fast back in those days.

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Re:Sad but true: Napster '99 still smokes Spotify 2012 by benmccann on Saturday March 17, 2012 @12:35PM (#3717428)
I was curious, so from Wikipedia: The Internet2 Project was originally established by 34 university researchers in 1996 under the auspices of EDUCOM (later EDUCAUSE), and was formally organized as the not-for-profit University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) in 1997.
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