Life of Shawn Fanning

By TacoxOFxBell
  • Off to college

    Off to college

    He went to Northeastern Univeristy in 1999.
  • Napster is released

    Napster is released

    Napster is released to the public as a beta

  • Dropout

    He drops out of Northesten due to Napsters sucess.
  • Cover of Time

    Cover of Time

    Shawn is on the cover of Time magazine.

  • Free napster shutdown

    The goverment shuts down Napster beacuse of file sharing laws

  • Napster is back

    After being shutdown for 4 months Napster is back but now it is member only pay to download only.

  • Rupture

    He creates the program for Rupture. A program for MMORG players to talk with each other

  • EA

    He goes to work for Electronic Arts.

  • Fired

    He is fired from EA in a small round of layoffs.

  • Napster is sold

    Napster is bought out by Rhapsody.