Ongoing History of New Music Daily: A quaint internet story

Today we get so much of our music online. But twenty-five years ago, the Internet was still an unknown commodity populated by nerdy early adopters.

In the mid-90s, it was considered to be very cutting-edge for an album to spend a couple of hours online chatting with other computer users around the world.

Lou Reed was one of the first to get interactive this way, spending a couple of hours chatting with CompuServe users in 1994. He enjoyed it so much that he convinced Depeche Mode to hold a conference with their fans on a service called Online.  And Sarah McLachlan was in early, too. In 1994, she spent a couple of hours on the bulletin board service created by Nettwerk Records. How quaint, huh?

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