Word marking aside: In '97 I joined this ubergeeky little company for what initially was thought to be a summer job. They had something homebrew they called a

Word marking aside: In '97 I joined this ubergeeky little company for what initially was thought to be a summer job. They had something homebrew they called a jukebox that they had gotten running around '94/'95, consisting of a distributed client/server system where you could queue songs from a shared library of MPEG layer 2 audio files that would be played back on a Sun Sparcstation, iirc. In short: It's not that crazy of a timeline. They were just ~2 years ahead of the curve, by '97 local MP3 playback was mainstream on Windows-based PCs at my university.