In the mid 90s many of us signed online for the first time and began to invest our time and interest in the internet. The options of what to view and read were very limited. Video online did not yet exist for commoners and audio was bound to cause problems for users as they surfed the net.

With most people accessing via dial-up, the internet was sluggish at best and impossible at worst. When you did get to hear something it was garbled with digital compression and mostly only available via RealAudio. There was no mp3 technology when I first signed on. It would come a few years later and even then it was not a perfect science. The sites that did feature audio were considered very advanced, especially if it was 'streaming' audio.