To expose Age! Winamp will close! Where are the software that used to be so red?

Another software that once hit will leave us. Once swept the world, with 15 years of history, and once became the MP3 era of the iconic software music player WINAMP will be closed on December 20, another era is about to end. In the rapid development of the Internet tide, a large wave by many whenever and netizens familiar with the name of the software, in just a few years is slowly disappearing ...

Winamp has a history of more than 15 years, once a popular music playback service. In 1997, two university students released the Winamp Media Player, followed by the popularity of MP3 file sharing with the development trend and rapid rise. In 1999, Winamp's parent company Nullsoft was acquired by AOL.

But with new competitors emerging as online music streaming services, Winamp is facing increasing competition. In the eyes of today's Internet and computer users, Winamp may already be in the net.

As a veteran of the pure music playback software, thousands of listening has been one of the user installed prerequisite software. Originally the software name "MP3 Walkman", later changed to "thousands of listening." July 2006, thousands of listening to be Baidu acquisition, July 19, 2013 changed its name to Baidu Music, thousands of listening to this brand disappeared forever.

Since its inception in 1995, RealPlayer has quickly become one of the most widely used players in the field. But with the development of Internet technology, a variety of new players, new technologies continue to emerge, RealPlayer because of their size, pop-up ads more, the transmission of soft pornography and other issues gradually disappeared. March 1, 2013, RealNetworks Chinese website online, RealPlayer ready to be in China again out of the lake. Yet the response has been muted.

Windows Media Player is a "WMP" of a Windows system with its own player. Microsoft bundled WMP1.0 in Windows 3.1 in 1992. Early because of the same type of software less, and with the list of Windows this big backer and widely used. Now it is estimated that many netizens can not even find the software in their computers.

Mention the "express train", many people will remember its scenery. It's the emergence of the same year to download software, the ant network of the rapid decline. In the download software market, the fast train to enter China's Internet download core market. However, in 2006, the express train was zcom. The main reason for the decline of the Express is that the download tool is only suitable for survival in the Internet narrowband Internet era, with the speed of the continuous improvement, users no longer need to watch the download.

1996, the early start of the jiangmin in the field of anti-virus can be said to be invincible, difficult to have rivals, once occupied 80% of the domestic market share. Once with Jinshan, rising and called antivirus software three strong. With the introduction of 360 free anti-virus software, the entire anti-virus software market into a free era. This is unable to adapt to market changes, the end of the jiangmin to insist on the cost of anti-virus, the outcome can be imagined.

Intelligent ABC is a Chinese pinyin input method that is brought by Windows system. In the late 90, when the network entered China at the beginning of this century, many users access to the Internet when the first Chinese pinyin input method is intelligent ABC. But with a more abundant function, input mode more use, with beautiful skin, network synchronization function of the emergence of competitors, such as sogou Pinyin, QQ Pinyin, intelligent ABC end because of the function, usability backward and fade out of people's vision.