We started ripping our DVDs when we migrated from the 6500 to a G4, and connected a G4 Mac mini to a SD TV, just in time for the Apple TV to arrive after the first HD television came into the house. Music is streamed all over the house, and has been for 13 years.
This whole process has carved through several G4 towers through 2008, shifting to a brief dalliance in the Hackintosh community in 20, back to native hardware with a re-cored Mac Pro (1,1) loaded with eight SATA drives in 2010 through 2014, culminating in a 2012 quad-core i7 Mac mini with an external storage tower with four drives right now. Did you know that with the right trays, removal of the optical drive, and a PCI ATA card, you can get six hard drives inside with no power issues? The G4 tower that was the family's main Mac was replaced with a G4 iMac, so the G4 tower became the server. All of a sudden, I had an array of PCI slots at my beck and call for USB, or what have you. At the same time, the G3 shifted to OS X. The 6500 didn't boot one day, so the project to move the home server to the Beige G3 accelerated. Then, in about the winter of 2002, hardware started aging less gracefully. Ultimately, we took the monitor away, and controlled it with Apple Network Assistant, then Apple Remote Desktop, and now Screen Sharing.
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