Music Meets the MP3
The m-peg one audio layer three, got its official name of .mp3 on July 14, 1995. It became the universal file name for a type of audio file compression. Compressed music files were easy to store and share and opened the door for companies like Napster to create file-sharing websites for swapping music for free over the Internet.
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