The Internet’s First Hit File Format Wasn’t the MP3. It Was MIDI
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359xe/the-internets-first-hit-file-format-wasnt-the-mp3-it-was-midi
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
For some reason, when we tiptoe around the start of November each year, I think about “November Rain.”