With media player Winamp headed to software heaven, Crave’s Bonnie Burton, who once worked for the firm that made it, looks back on workplace tensions and fun — and Mike the llama.
A “Tron” Winamp skin. Fans often often created skins for their favorite movies, TV shows, or bands.
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If you downloaded a song in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you most likely did it with Winamp. This week, the world said goodbye to the legendary media player with plenty of nostalgia, but for me, Winamp’s death means the end of a very personal era. Here are some of my memories of working at Nullsoft, the company that created it.
When I first started there in 2001, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. America Online had just bought the company, and Nullsoft employees weren’t thrilled with the prospect of being told what to do by a large company with a lot of rules. Many of us were young and full of “piss off” energy.