In year 1996, the CNET Download.com had stepped its foot in shareware and freeware applications. In year 1996 the site had approximately 30000 shareware and freeware applications. That was just the beginning of online software distribution. In this discussion we are listing some of the most popular top ten software’s that continued in demand from last ten years and downloaded most by the people.1. ICQ: The instant messengers are universal. But in year 1997, the instant messaging was not so common when ICQ was released. The ICQ means for “I Seek You”. It was the unfortunate of ICQ that the Yahoo Instant Messenger and AIM has violated the territory of ICQ as competitors. But still it is popular by the international users and is the priority of international users and has maintained its position in the list of popular downloads. 2.Winamp: Winamp got its popularity to run the MP3 digital formats. The software has not lost its growing craze in the field of digital audio scenes from the 90’s. Still the people prefer to download this software to run their songs and play their movies. So, we can say that the software has maintained its popularity in the field of downloading. 3.Napster: no one can forget this provocative file-sharing software. ShawnFanning, student of Northeastern University had developed this software. This was designed to share the MP3 first time on peer to peer network. After sued, shuttered and reborn the software has not lost its popularity and still downloaded by the people. Read Full : Top ten downloads of the past 10 years | Medley News - Online Magazine
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Top ten downloads of the past 10 years | Medley News
In year 1996, the CNET Download.com had stepped its foot in shareware and freeware applications. In year 1996 the site had approximately 30000 shareware and freeware applications. That was just the beginning of online software distribution. In this discussion we are listing some of the most popular top ten software’s that continued in demand from last ten years and downloaded most by the people.1. ICQ: The instant messengers are universal. But in year 1997, the instant messaging was not so common when ICQ was released. The ICQ means for “I Seek You”. It was the unfortunate of ICQ that the Yahoo Instant Messenger and AIM has violated the territory of ICQ as competitors. But still it is popular by the international users and is the priority of international users and has maintained its position in the list of popular downloads. 2.Winamp: Winamp got its popularity to run the MP3 digital formats. The software has not lost its growing craze in the field of digital audio scenes from the 90’s. Still the people prefer to download this software to run their songs and play their movies. So, we can say that the software has maintained its popularity in the field of downloading. 3.Napster: no one can forget this provocative file-sharing software. ShawnFanning, student of Northeastern University had developed this software. This was designed to share the MP3 first time on peer to peer network. After sued, shuttered and reborn the software has not lost its popularity and still downloaded by the people. Read Full : Top ten downloads of the past 10 years | Medley News - Online Magazine