On any street around the world, as long as you pay attention, you will find some people who are immersed in the MP3 world alone, whether they are in a hurry or carefree. These people include both young people and old people with gray hair. Perhaps the only difference is that the sound files selected in their MP3 files are different: they may be pop songs, cross talk dramas or a wonderful speech by Churchill. Statistics from major search engines at home and abroad show that "MP3" has become the most searched keyword by netizens after "sex".

So, do you know who invented MP3?

The father of MP3 was a young German named Carl Heinz Brandenburg. 65438-0989 published the research results of digital compressed music in his doctoral thesis. Unexpectedly, the paper actually triggered a new wave of digital compression technology. The doctor said, "I was asked what the future of this doctoral thesis will be." I said, just like other papers, lying in the library and dusting. Who would have thought it would evolve into a technology with millions of users (the number of MP3 users is astronomical nowadays)? It's just like dreaming. "He put the digital compression software on the Internet for fans to download for free. Unfortunately, German companies regard it as an ordinary free software, and no one takes into account the huge business opportunities contained in this great technology.

1One day in March, 997, Moon, the manager of a certain department of Samsung, saw a technical briefing on MP3 on the plane. When he finished reading, he found that the passenger next to his seat was listening to MD{ a music player}. He immediately thought that it would be a revolution in music media technology if he invented a player that could download music anytime and anywhere on the Internet.

After returning to South Korea, he reported the idea to the then President Yin Zhonglong. Unfortunately, Samsung was restructuring at that time, and it was too busy to take into account Moon's development proposal. 1At the end of 997, the Asian financial turmoil caused a large number of layoffs in enterprises, and Moon was not spared. He left Samsung and took this idea to another Korean company, Saehan{ (Han Shi, 1995), and launched the first MP3 player MPman F 10 in 1998.

Now, millions of people all over the world are enjoying the convenience and happiness brought by MP3.

The rapid development of human society benefits from two kinds of wisdom: one is to invent and create, and the other is to apply other people's inventions and creations to society. God seems to be stingy and has not created many wizards with both wisdom. But God is fair. He always makes some people become excellent scientists and others become excellent businessmen.

There are few great scientists, because scientists must have perseverance and the spirit of hard work in addition to a fairly high level of intelligence; There are few successful businessmen, because successful businessmen should not only have a keen sense of business opportunities, but also be able to seize the fleeting spark of thought!