Internet Radio

A November 1994 Rolling Stones concert was the "first cyberspace multicast concert." Mick Jagger opened the concert by saying, "I wanna say a definite welcome to everyone that's, uh, climbed into the Internet tonight and, uh, has got into the M-bone. And I hope it doesn't all collapse."

  • On November 7, 1994, WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC USA) became the first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the Internet

  • WXYC dependent an FM radio connected to a system at SunSite, later accepted as Ibiblio, running Cornell's CU-SeeMe software
  • WXYC had begun final broadcasts and bandwidth testing as antecedent as August, 1994. WREK (91.1 FM, Atlanta, GA USA) started streaming on the same evening using their own custom software called CyberRadio1
  • However, unlike WXYC, this was WREK's beta launch and the stream was not advertised until a later date.