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The father of the MP3 player was born
Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June 20th, 1954. -
Karlheinz Brandenburg's first college degree
Karlheinz Brandenburg went to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for electrical engineering in 1980 -
Karlheinz Brandenburg second college diploma
Later Karlheinz Brandenburg a diploma in math in 1982 at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. -
The first MP3 player was invented
The first MP3 player was invented by Karlheinz Brandenburg on December 6, 1991, in Germany. -
How it received its name.
mp3 received its current name after it was unanimously selected in an internal poll by Fraunhofer researchers In 1995 -
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The first release of the MP3 player by the Saehan Information Systems.
The first release of the MP3 player was in spring of 1998 in South Korea by the Saehan Information Systems. -
The first company to distribute the MP3 player music
A record company called Sub Pop was the first to distribute music tracks in the MP3 format In February 1999. -
The MP3 player evolves into the iPod
The mp3 player evolved into the iPod on October 23rd, 2001.