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Very interesting article!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it's some music software from the skins' pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins

(I haven't googled anything yet)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It was the thing in its time.