How the MP3 file format changed music forever

Do you remember your first time? Your first time listening to an MP3, we mean. For us it was a U2 song, leaked from the not-yet-released Pop album.

We had to install something called WinAmp to play it, it took forever to download on our crappy modem connection, and the song wasn’t that great.

We didn’t realise it at the time, but we were listening to the future.

The rise of MP3 has been staggering. Amazingly, the portable MP3 player is just ten years old – and the MP3 format wasn’t even published until five years before that. But MP3′s world domination wasn’t guaranteed. In fact, the whole thing was nearly canned in 1991. So where did it come from, and how did it become such a big deal?

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