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.mp3 's tenth anniversary, 05/07/14

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has it been 10 years already? my god.

saturn wrote:has it been 10 years already? my god.

saturn
oldskool

saturn wrote:has it been 10 years already? my god.

word
i remember my first mp3
beastie boys - girls

just to see what it was. turned out to be "pretty good" quality
ran it on one of the first mp3 players for mac.. which name i cant remember right now :S

Vamp. yea that was it. no UI whatsoever other than a timer.

I'm online since 1994

MKJ wrote:

saturn wrote:has it been 10 years already? my god.

word
i remember my first mp3
beastie boys - girls

just to see what it was. turned out to be "pretty good" quality
ran it on one of the first mp3 players for mac.. which name i cant remember right now :S

Vamp. yea that was it. no UI whatsoever other than a timer.

I remember downloading a 128 kbit mp3 from planet.nl
It was still legal in Holland to spread copyrighted songs back then. Then I tried to zip-divide the 3 meg song on two or three 3'5 floppies to show it to a friend. ROFLMAO.

haha i was all about xs4all back then
me and a friend had these bigass cartridges (a whopping 20mb ) which we used to exchange files bigger than 1.4 megs. great stuff

I started encoding with the Xing codec. Luckily not for long, since that motherbitch caused a lot of artifacts and shabby quality. Been a Lame VBR fanboi since then.

MKJ wrote:haha i was all about xs4all back then
me and a friend had these bigass cartridges (a whopping 20mb ) which we used to exchange files bigger than 1.4 megs. great stuff

What was it about xs4all then? I'm with xs4all since 2000 and I'll probably stay with them another 5 years at least.

I bought an Iomega 100 mb Zipdrive with Parallel connector to fit all the stuff on it. Damn, that was sloooooooooooow. And you had to shut down the computer if you wanted to remove the drive and take it with you. But it was the cat's pyjamas back then when you didn't have those flashy flashdrives that are so small that you've lost them and only notice it a few months later

mac didnt require you to shut it off :icon14:
fuck i wish i could remember the name of those cartridges. my dad used them to get print-ready stuff to the lithographer's.

*googles in vain*

20 mb.....hmmm....was it one of those magneto-optical disks or maybe even tapes?

nah it wasnt an optical. the drive (external) used a latch to fasten/release the disk. it was about 1.5x bigger than a cd-jewelcase. they came in 20 and 40mb variaties, and i think there was a 80mb version at the end of its lifetime too

we did have tapes too, but those could containt like a gig of compressed data.

those magnetical-optical disks looked like floopydisks, only a bit bigger. Don't think CDs cause the word contains optical. Sony made a lot of those disks back then

lol, zip drives and their horrible clicks of death

In 1995 I bought some PC magazine (When they weren't $11.95 per fucking issue, wtf?) and it had a CD with game demos, applications, and this new mp3 thing.

They are horrible songs, but I still have them.

Edit: Maelcum of KFMF - Hypnocrite.mp3 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I remember when I was downloading MP3's off mp3.com :icon14:

I used to love their hypnosis section. Some of the artists were very relaxing.