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In, you know,

thinking of something

That made sense to him

As far as um,

The music and

the computer combined.

I was fortunate to have an uncle

Who was into technology

And gave me my first computer.

There's a,

there's a lot of insecurity

That comes around being

Uh, dependent on others.

You know, to get by

and so as a kid,

It sort of influenced

My social uh,

confidence at school.

We moved around a lot.

Um, there was also kind of a,

I didn't feel as connected

to my family, intellectually.

And so, um, i didn't really have

Many others at school either

on that front.

So i was sort of,

feeling a little bit uh, lost.

And displaced at times.

Going online and finding people

Who had the same interests

Or i could learn from

and where there was no,

Your reputation

was your own.

It was not about like,

you know the,

How well off

your family was,

Or how well

you dressed.

Um, or how well you spoke

or body language.

It was about the merit

of what you were saying

And i think that...

for me, was just intoxicating.

In the early days of the web,

you know

The first time i ever saw music

That was down-Loadable

Was a song that i put up

on my homepage

On campus internet.

It was an mp2 file.

I guess that would

have been '93,

Around that time.

And there were very few

people out there

Because you're changing

it into another file format

Or have a special card t

o play it.

For anyone who had been

downloading stuff

It was such

a colossal pain in the ass.

It's not funny.

Uh, even for technical people,

It was uh, a process.

And, and a constant,

Like trying to get

bits and pieces of files

And reconnect them all together.

And that was kind of

a pain in the ass.

You know, 1998,

was when it really felt like

Okay, this is real.

This is the way i'm going

to listen to music.

It became clear

that the computer

Was going to be the place

That we would store our music.

Then you started looking

for tools to get the music

Into the computer,

tools to play it back,

Tools to manage it.

I remember the first mp3

i ever downloaded.

I remember the first time

i ever, you know...

basically, ever played

a track from the internet.

And i remember just thinking,

Even though

it's just information

It's just audio, there's such

a crazy amount of emotion.

The fact that you could

Kind of share emotion

over the internet,

Was so, it was really wild

to think that...

something so important to you,

You could just trade so freely.

So i think it was um...

you know, its,

its hard to quantify

How important it was.

I was a freshman

At northeastern university

in boston.

One of my roommates

was into mp3s.

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