1995
MP3 Appears on the Internet
MP3出現於網路
Source: Germans Invent, Americans Profit: MP3 at 20
From: Epoch Times
From the first half of 1995 through the late 1990s, MP3 began to flourish on the internet. Invented in 1995 by German mathematician and electronic engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg and his colleagues, it is an audio file compression technology designed to reduce the size of digital music files and accelerate network transmission. MP3’s compression algorithm filters out audio frequencies largely imperceptible to the human ear, dramatically reducing audio file sizes.
From then on, people gradually stopped going to shops to buy cassettes and CDs, instead downloading music directly from the internet — the entire music industry was fundamentally transformed.
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External Links
- The Impact of MP3 on the Music Industry (Internet Communication Magazine, Issue 95, June 1999)
- A New Revolution in the Music Industry, Seen through the Birth of Online Music (Institute for Information Industry)