Aerosmith debuted a single on Compuserve 20 years ago

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First legal major label release. By '94 there was plenty of music on usenet bin groups. I remember having to cut/paste several ascii text files together to make a song or pic.

“cut/paste several ascii text files together”

lol windows.

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Oh how I don’t miss the hours it took to download a measly 3 MB image of a single page of a comic book ashcan issue on Compuserve. The Flight Sim Forum was, however, awesome.

uuh huh huh
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WAV file…I hope we aren’t talking stereo, 16 bit, 44.1khz here cause damn that’d take forever on 14.4k.

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I remember people at school in the late 90s (just before Napster & mp3s hit the mainstream) passing around Stairway to Heaven…encoded as a wav file in order to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy.

I wish I still had it, it’d be great for trolling audiophiles…

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indeed. even with 4:1 compression that’s about 12000hz mono.

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