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Japan releases digital recordings, and then gives us the Walkman.
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Mr. Brandenburg begins attempts to compress music.
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The Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen, a part of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft research organization in Germany, was where Professor Dieter Seitzer of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg followed the guidance of Karlheinz Brandenburg to create MP technology.
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MP1 technology receives a German patent.
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The completion of the project almost missed the deadline when a compiler error was found in the encoding two days before the submission of the project was due.
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MP1 technology was released to the general public.
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MP2 was under construction.
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MP2 debuted to the public.
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MP3MP3 receives it's individual patent, then the technology of MP in general is patented in the U.S.
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Mp and Windows become a partnership and MP begins actually enforcing it's copyrights.
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SubPop, a record company, offers music in MP3 format, and then the MP3 became portable later that same year.
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More people were buying MPs as part of a phone than as an individual device.
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iPhones and iPod TouchesiPhones and iPod Touches come out with MP3 technology featured in a more advanced system.
