Ten years old today - a revolution in a decade!

July 14, 2005 Today is the tenth birthday of the MP3 – the file format that has reached ubiquitous usage in every language on the planet was named on this day, July 14th, 1995 by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. The audio team at Fraunhofer decided to use “.mp3” as the file name extension for their new audio coding technology (replacing “.bit”) following an internal poll and soon MP3 became the generally accepted acronym for the ISO standard IS 11172-3 “MPEG Audio Layer 3.“ And the result is now history - over 80 million MP3 players will be sold worldwide next year.

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