On this day in 1996, a freshly inked U.S. patent quietly laid the cornerstone of the digital music revolution. In addition to facilitating this now vast internet-based entertainment business, the humble data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.mp3-history.com/” data-url=”https://www.mp3-history.com/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>MP3 file format would propel broadband proliferation, usher in the iPod era, and arguably precipitate the iPhone and all the other touchscreen-slabs that remain indispensable gadgets to this day.
MPEG data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/audio” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/audio”>Audio Layer III (MP3) files were devised by scientists to greatly reduce the amount of data required to…
