Art Machine
Just another former infatuation junkie

Ten years ago today, the file extension .mp3 was selected for ISO standard IS 11172-3 “MPEG Audio Layer 3.”

[translated from the original German]

Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 12:29:49 +0200
bq. Subject: Layer3 file extension: .mp3

Hi all,

this is the overwhelming result of our poll: everyone voted for .mp3 as extension for ISO MPEG Audio Layer 3! As a consequence, everyone please mind that for WWW pages, shareware, demos, and so on, the .bit extension is not to be used anymore. There is a reason for that, believe me

Juergen Zeller

And the relationship between the RIAA, its customers, and its artists has been going steadily downhill ever since (which, considering how bad they already were, is actually kind of amazing).

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