That year range definitely surprised me. In my generation I suspect many of us think of winamp as being just sort of always there, but of course it wasn't. When you add it up, it really only existed for <25% of the history of the web (taking 1996 -> 2026 as the time range, I think 1996 is defensible start for when the web becaome accessible to some portion of people in the first world). Hell, I probably have coworkers who were born after the dissolution of nullsoft (interns anyway).
I won’t nitpick too hard because the percentage doesn’t move much, but Netscape went public in ‘95 so it’s got to be before that. The minimum would be ‘91 (first website) but that’s too early. Super geeky but I will peg it at April 1 1995, which was the first release of Apache HTTP.
The difference comes down to focusing on what we think of as the core infrastructure of the internet (the first modern browser, apache), versus _access_. I think there was a pretty big jump around 1996, 1997 in dialup subscribers. To get geekier though, we could actually peg it at late 1993/1994, the eternal september.
