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Coventry, RI--Shawn Carlson's office is just down the strip from Dunkin Donuts, Captain Nemo's and Del's Lemonade in this old mill town just outside Providence...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Helping Small-Time Scientists Answer Big Questions | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning and a piece of computer code he called Napster. Or on the front lines of the agritech wars, where the opponents of so-called Frankenfoods stirred a tempest in a taco shell when genetically engineered feed corn not deemed safe for human consumption (because it might cause allergic reactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Science And Technology | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

...While a freshman at Northeastern University, Shawn Fanning wrote the original code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Like many great ideas, it was conceived by someone without the good sense to know it was impossible. In mid-1999, the laid-back, 18-year-old Northeastern University dropout Shawn Fanning--nicknamed "Napster" for the nappy hair under his omnipresent baseball cap--holed up for days without sleep in his uncle's office, tapping out code for a music-swapping program. He didn't realize that the task was too hard, that people were too selfish to share, that big companies would shut him down. By the end of 2000, Napster had upended music's business model, survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class of 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...SHAWN FANNING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class of 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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