I saw an advertisement on the side of one site just a little while ago and thought to myself “I wonder what ever happened to the kid that created that program?” Shawn Fanning was his name. After graduating from Harwich High School in 1998, Shawn enrolled at Northeastern University. In January 1999, Shawn dropped out of college to concentrate on writing the program that would become Napster.

Little do people know about the drama inside the Napster company between Shawn and his uncle (who typically filled the absent father role for him) John Fanning.

For a really good read, there is a long story – and one of the best written I’ve found – at jimgilliam.com