>>60048170Napster was influential but something was always going to come along doing what Napster did, which is distribute music over the Internet. It was just a focal point when the ingredients were all right.
Same thing with Winamp. If it wasn't Winamp, it would have been something else. Some sort of MP3 player was going to become popular.
(And Napster was originally created by IRC users and, IIRC, included an IRC client!)