I totally forgot until tonight that cdnow is so old they used to have a telnet interface.

Didn't they even do gopher at one point? I seem to remember accessing cdnow with OmniWeb and having it not recognize the browser and offer me a gopher link as an option. I guess it might have been telnet... Anyway, the crazy thing is this wasn't that long ago, probably 2000.

Oh, and I agree the passing of CDNow is a sad thing. They weren't as accurate or comprehensive as allmusic, but their data was much easier to get to and they didn't do that amazingly stupid javascript link thing.

-Mike