Sabina Breitsameter asked:

>When were the first soundfiles on the www?

I couldn't even guess ... probably right from the start.

>On which web sites were they?

Mathias Fuchs started a project for Kunstradio On Line in
1995 called NETSOUNDS - it kind of petered out but you
can still see/hear it at:
<http://thing.at/orfkunstradio/PROJECTS/NETSOUNDS/proj_1.html>

1995 is early but not THAT early ... I suggest you check with
Mathias about the history of sound on the web:
<fuchs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>What Data-formats where they? Where they accessible to non-specialists or
>did they require a special and sophisticated knowledge for being downloaded?

Nothing special, just standard aiff and wav files ... but they are about
1mb each - and these are NOT streaming formats so they had to be
downloaded before playing ...

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