In 1990 Usenet was created. Usenet is a combination of the words "user" and "internet", and is a large discussion system spread out over many servers. One large usenet is the website "netjam". In Netjam, MIDI files are sent to a server to be accessed by the members, who would work on the files and repost their edited content.
In 1993, Mosaic, the first web browser containing a Graphic User Interface, was designed. Mosiac is named as being the browser that opened up the web to the general public. Many characteristics of the original Mosaic can be seen in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, popular browsers in use today. The Mosaic browser was discontinued in 1997.
In the mid 1990s web browsers could support the playback of MIDI files (.mid) using Quicktime. Audio files in WAV and AIFF format could be downloaded. 1 minute of CD quality audio, with the available bandwidth of the time could take 25 minutes to download.
By 2000, RealAudio, Windows Media Audio, Quicktime and MP3 were available and could handle both streaming and downloading, resulting in much faster downloads.
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