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So many memories.

i also just learned that

Story goes, they loved her voice, and the original album version is a cappella, so they figured if they could make her solo voice sound good after compressing then the mp3 format would handle anything else well enough. So that song was the measuring stick for “is our mp3 compression algorithm ready”

I worked at Pizza Hut when online ordering started (I think it was just a trial at the time? None of us understood it all...) and it was wild because customers couldn't pay online and we had to physically call them to verify their order. We had maybe 5 online orders while I was there from 1996-1998.

Oh, my mistake, just digging through the old PPP LJ on the Internet Archive, I can see it had a bigger community than I thought, selling out a run of 1,000 shirts in 2004, posts with hundreds of comments, etc. I guess it’s all relative! web.archive.org/web/20050617...

oooOOOoooooh