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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by ssl-3 on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:21PM (#39434974)
CDNow had more in their catalog than the huge onion-skin book that the local independent music store had.

They were selling things online very, very early -- it seems like they were doing that an eternity before "e-commerce" became a part of the vernacular.

In the days before Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web became common, I used to browse CDNow using telnet from a borrowed dialup account on a university VAX system, with a terminal emulator running on MS-DOS.

Fun stuff. (I never bought anything from CDNow -- I used it as a service to find the catalog numbers of the CDs I wanted to buy, which I'd then order from the local shop downtown.)

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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by inferiorhuman on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:26AM (#39469411)
That's the youngest I've felt in quite a while – I've only used CDNow's web interface. For me it was the recommendations (and search that simply worked unlike Amazon).
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