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'MP3' Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary

Posted by timothy on from the instant-nostalgia dept.

Sachin Garg writes "The Data Compression News Blog reports that on July 14th 2005, the name "MP3" celebrates its tenth anniversary. On this day back in 1995, the researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS decided to use ".mp3" as the file name extension for their new audio coding technology. Development on this technology started in 1987, in 1992 it was considered far ahead of its times, then MP3 became the generally accepted acronym for the ISO standard IS 11172-3 "MPEG Audio Layer 3" and no other coding method so far (2005) could uncrown MP3 as the popular standard for digital music on the computer and on the Internet."

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  1. Somewhere... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... a record executive weeps.

  2. The bad old days... by decipher_saint · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I was eighteen,
    I downloaded a very good CD,
    A very good CD that took the whole night to grab,
    We found it on IRC
    My handle was brian_mcgee
    We burned it at 2 times for free
    When I was eighteen...

    With apologies to Homer, 1995 seems so long ago now...

    --
    crazy dynamite monkey
  3. Spoiled bastards... by MicroPat · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 7 years ago, I ripped all my CD's to MP3, amazed at how much precious HDD space I could save while accessing all my music via the same source! Now, here I am, in the hard disk gigacheap days, stuck with these lossy-format buggers while the new kids on the block rip to their slightly larger lossless formats. You lucky, spoiled bastards.