no need for piracy – largest collection of scene music, freely available for over 28 years now
EDIT: and another twenty thousand OG scene tracks
EDIT: yet another OG collection still going strong and still collecting music
Banana republic – “Chiquita, formerly known as United Fruit”
unless you made a lace card
Why Isn’t Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman
when you need the modern equivalent of TV Guide just to find a show …
very much a convenience factor – Apple broke the MP3 sharing scene with the simplicity (at the time) of iTunes – video streaming started out simple but now it’s turned into cable TV, trying to find out which service is streaming a particular show, if it’s region-locked, or gated behind a premium upgrade, or just been dropped completely, or two services are still arguing over who gets the rights, or find out all the seasons are on one service except one season is on another service …
(if you like psytrance, it looks like Ektoplazm’s archives are still available)