The 00s Part 5: Technology
b'Let\\u2019s make a list of all the things we did not have on January 1, 2000\\u2026ready?...iTunes, iPods, iPhones\\u2026YouTube, Facebook, Twitter\\u2026Snapchat, Spotify, smartphones\\u2026\\n\\nThere was no Netflix (at least as we know it now)\\u2026no MySpace\\u2026no Instagram\\n\\nWell, what didwe have?...dial-up modems\\u2026Windows 98 (if you were lucky) or Windows 95 (if you weren\\u2019t)\\u2026Apple?...still mostly a corporate basket case\\u2026even Google was less than 18 months old\\u2026\\n\\nIf we look at music, we were mad for compact discs\\u2026they were selling by the hundreds of millions, ensuring that the music industry was drowning in money\\u2026\\n\\nVinyl?....dead, dead, dead\\u2026the only thing that was keeping that format on life support were club djs who still preferred the feel and action of records over CDs in the booth\\u2026\\n\\nWe had MP3s and we\\u2019d begun to trade music files online, but that was still a clunky and frustrating experience for most people\\u2014unless you\\u2019d discovered this new thing called \\u201cNapster\\u201d that had been out for about six months\\u2026\\n\\nNow fast-forward ten years to December 31, 2009\\u2026everyone was getting smartphones\\u2026global CD sales had dropped from a high of 26 billion U.S. dollars in 2000 to around 9 billion in 2009 with no end in sight\\u2026the number would get much smaller yet\\u2026\\n\\nMeanwhile, vinyl was starting to come back\\u2026everyone was using digital music files\\u2026streaming music services were starting to catch on\\u2026and Apple and Google and Facebook were among the most powerful companies in the world\\u2026\\n\\nThe recorded music industry was in complete disarray, bleeding money, laying people off, dropping artists, and still trying to litigate their way back to their former glory\\u2026\\n\\nThe first decade of the 21stcentury was an era of massive technological disruption\\u2026how did our music adapt?...let\\u2019s examine that\\u2026this is the oughts, part 5\\u2026\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'