AfterDawn
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AfterDawn celebrated its 25th birthday in June, 2024. The article looks back at our history and also tries to predict the future.
![Tech year 2022 wrapped up: The rise of the AI, EU to become the much-needed counterweight to tech giants, ... Tech year 2022 wrapped up: The rise of the AI, EU to become the much-needed counterweight to tech giants, ...](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/firework-in-new-years-day.png)
AfterDawn's wrap-up for the tech year 2022. The rise of the artificial intelligence was probably the most significant change that occurred during the year 2022, but there were many other interesting developments, too.
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AfterDawn turns 23 years old today.
![Tech year 2021 wrapped up: Awful battery life, QR code comeback, global chip shortage, .. Tech year 2021 wrapped up: Awful battery life, QR code comeback, global chip shortage, ..](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/firework-in-new-years-day.png)
What happened in technology during the year 2021?
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AfterDawn is 22 years old today.
![Year 2020 in review: COVID-19, new consoles, rise of the mid-ranged phones, .. Year 2020 in review: COVID-19, new consoles, rise of the mid-ranged phones, ..](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/firework-in-new-years-day.png)
What happened and mattered in tech in year 2020. Our summary.
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AfterDawn celebrates its 21st birthday as of today.
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AfterDawn services have been relocated to a new host at the beginning of 2020. This marks the first time we start using cloud-based hosting.
![20 years ago: Napster vs CuteMX, movie industry gets its own boogieman: DeCSS 20 years ago: Napster vs CuteMX, movie industry gets its own boogieman: DeCSS](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-1999-partial-screenshot.png)
Look back at news that used to happen back in November, 1999 in digital world, looking back 20 years later.
![20 years ago: Mobile phones about to play MP3 .. and.. what? Legal music? Online?! 20 years ago: Mobile phones about to play MP3 .. and.. what? Legal music? Online?!](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-1999-partial-screenshot.png)
We look back at tech news that happened 20 years ago, in October, 1999.
![20 years ago: Matrix vs Titanic, which movie will break the record? Also: MP3 arrive to your home stereo system, ... 20 years ago: Matrix vs Titanic, which movie will break the record? Also: MP3 arrive to your home stereo system, ...](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-1999-partial-screenshot.png)
In this article, we're looking back in time, observing news that happened in August, 1999, from year 2019's perspective.
![20 years ago: Sonique vs Winamp - the era of Windows software appearance customizations 20 years ago: Sonique vs Winamp - the era of Windows software appearance customizations](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-1999-partial-screenshot.png)
Time to look back at the tech news from July, 1999 when Winamp and Sonique were fighting for the MP3 player dominance.
![20 years ago: These were the news stories AfterDawn covered back in June, 1999 20 years ago: These were the news stories AfterDawn covered back in June, 1999](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-1999-partial-screenshot.png)
Our dear website, AfterDawn, officially launched in 10th of June, 1999. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we start a year-long project to look ......
![AfterDawn is 20 years old today - Time to look back AfterDawn is 20 years old today - Time to look back](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-1999-partial-screenshot.png)
AfterDawn celebrates its 20th birthday and we summarize our site history in one article.
![End of an era: AfterDawn shuts down its indie music service, MP3Lizard, after 19 years End of an era: AfterDawn shuts down its indie music service, MP3Lizard, after 19 years](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/mp3lizardcom.png)
AfterDawn will celebrate its 20th birthday this year. As you might imagine, 20 years in Internet business means that we have changed our site's ......
![AfterDawn's Android app updated to v1.60 AfterDawn's Android app updated to v1.60](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-android-app.png)
AfterDawn's official Android app has been updated. The new version, v1.60, is mostly a bug fix release to address the known issues with the app.
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![Problem with AfterDawn's download servers fixed Problem with AfterDawn's download servers fixed](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn_logo_hires_whitebg-1280x720.png)
We had a severe problem with our software download section for the past 10 days that caused good portion of downloads from our site to fail.
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Wow, yet another year has passed and we're once again celebrating our site's birthday. This hobby-project-gone-mad of ours is officially 19 ......
![AfterDawn's own Android app updated: Night mode added, bugs fixed AfterDawn's own Android app updated: Night mode added, bugs fixed](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/afterdawn-android-app.png)
AfterDawn's official Android app has been updated to v1.50. New version now includes night mode.
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AfterDawn app's new version, v1.10, fixes bugs and improves search.
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