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Too bad.

**Update (on 26.04.2018 - 15 years later):** I used Audiogalaxy a lot that summer because it worked as a two part service by using a downloader client that I had installed at that cafe and a web based remote which I could access from the Internet Cafe in Baia Sprie. I remember that I would queue up a list of wanted songs and from time to time I would go to Baia Mare and collect the MP3s it downloaded for me. After a while, wanting to avoid questions about what I was doing there, even if I had the answer prepared as I said above, I moved the downloading computer to the "server" room which was a small room with half opaque windows, and I remember that I dimmed the brightness of the monitor so that nobody would know I'm there. I even spent a few hours one night there with some friends after our favorite bar, Cuba, closed early and we sneaked in and waited for the first bus to Baia Sprie. Also it occured to me while writing this update that either during 2001 or sometime after this post (starting with 2003) part of the space that housed the Internet Cafe, was converted into a small snack shop that ran inside the uni.
**Update (on 26.04.2018 - 15 years later):** I remember that I used [Audiogalaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogalaxy) a lot that summer because it worked as a two part service by employing a downloader client that I had installed at that cafe at the univeristy and a web based remote which I could access from the Internet Cafe in Baia Sprie. I remember that I would queue up a list of wanted songs and from time to time I would go to Baia Mare and collect the MP3s it downloaded for me. After a while, wanting to avoid questions about what I was doing there, even if I had the answer prepared as I said above, I moved the downloading computer to the "server" room which was a small room with half opaque windows, and I remember that I dimmed the brightness of the monitor so that nobody would know I'm there. I even spent a few hours one night there with some friends after our favorite bar, Cuba, closed early and we sneaked in and waited for the first bus to Baia Sprie. Also it occured to me while writing this update that either during 2001 or sometime after this post (starting with 2003) part of the space that housed the Internet Cafe, was converted into a small snack shop that ran inside the uni.

**Another update (on that same date 15 years later)** It seems Audiogalaxy called it quits on June 17, 2002.

**Update (on 10.06.2019 - 16 years later):** According to some photos I found in my archive the snack shop was there during my visits in the spring of 2002, so it probably started sometime in 2001.

**Update (on 8.11.2024 - Almost 22 years later):** I wonder what did I do with that key. Also, I walked past the uni one of these past weeks and I thought about visiting (checking what happened to the space that hosted the cafe going and going around to the back of the building and checking if the door to the cafe is still there) but as there was a guard posted at the gate, I gave up on the idea.

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