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Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor.He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999.
Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. [3] Initially, Napster was envisioned by Fanning as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001. [4]
Due to its status as a user-created games platform, Roblox has a variety of popular games. As of May 2020, the most popular games on Roblox had over 10 million monthly active players each. As of August 2020, at least 20 games had been played more than one billion times, and at least 5,000 have been played more than one million times. [ 118 ]
June 1999 – Napster was created by Shawn Fanning. Napster let users search across all users' shares. Napster provided a centralized server that indexed the files, and carried out the searches. [28] Individual files, however, remain on the hosts' computers and were transferred directly from peer to peer. November 1999 - The Direct Connect ...
Scott has been written about in books including The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, [7] All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster, [8] The Customer Revolution, [9] and Growing Up Digital, [10] as well as in numerous magazine and newspaper articles internationally.
Roblox Corporation has been ranked on Pocket Gamer.biz ' s top lists of mobile game developers, placing sixth in 2018, [30] eighth in 2019, [31] and sixth in 2020. [32] Fortune featured it as one of the best small and medium-sized workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, placing it sixteenth in 2019 and fortieth in 2021.
In 2002, Roxio bought the assets of the original Napster at its bankruptcy auction and acquired PressPlay in May 2003 for $40 million. [5] After integrating the services, Roxio launched a revamped Napster in October 2003, whereby users were able to download songs a-la-carte or pay for a monthly unlimited download and streaming media service.
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook.