Music Streaming Service Once Valued In The Billions Before Collapsing

If you access MP3.com now, you’ll find a home page filled with links to various news articles in glorified clickbait fashion. But once upon a time, it was home to a vast music sharing network worth billions…at least on paper!

Today, we take for granted the idea that we can easily access practically any type of music through the web. With the rise of DSL and Broadband by the turn of the century, it was much easier to stream or download digital media in ways that earlier Internet access, with its 56K maximum speed, couldn’t. Continue reading “This Date In History: MP3.com Goes Public in 1999”