How Winamp Lost the Future of Music

Winamp was one of the defining programs of the early internet. Millions of people used it to play MP3s, organize music libraries, and customize their listening experience with skins, plugins, and visualizers. After AOL bought Winamp in 1999, it looked like the company had everything it needed to dominate the future of digital music. Instead, that future went somewhere else. This is the story of how Winamp got huge, kept growing, and still lost the future. #winamp #aol #techhistory #internethistory