Happy Birthday MP3!!
Billboard Post Play Blog reports that the MP3 turns ten today. The tiny terror was hatched ten years ago today when researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany ("Vee have vays of making you stream!") decided to use ".mp3" as the file name extension for their new audio coding technology. Since then, the MP3 has brought the music industry to its wobbly knees as the first modern music configuration not introduced, controlled, and marketed by the industry itself (which hasn't put a halt to the gluttonous and obsolete practice of CD packaging deductions levied on artists and other royalty recipients). Consumers have rejoiced in a drunken downloading frenzy, ditching their broken-hinged jewel cases and clunkola CD Walkmans for iPod mugging bait. And for that, young man - the stripper, the Veuve, and the cake are on us. Just don't tell your mom as she'd probably kick our aged analog ass. Hit, it Marilyn!
Check out July's Rare MP3 of the Month.
The Poopsmith Song :)
http://www.overtherhine.com/music/mp3rarity/
Posted by: Blair Sterrett | July 18, 2005 at 01:01 PM
Monica,
keep rockin' the humor!
you so funny.
-biilly miler
Posted by: Billy Miller | July 22, 2005 at 10:07 AM
Oh yes, it was the great day. I love mp3!
Posted by: fant | January 16, 2006 at 07:04 AM