Im loving this meme inspired resurgence of #lowfi #ambient #beats .. for whatever reason.

We DID have this back in the day, it was called #MonkeyRadio:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050204025216/http://monkeyradio.org/?section=news
One guy, his music collection and a cgi driven .m3u playlist.

People have re-recreated the original playlists: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17ZyF1nVfi/

And #Soma.fm was there in the early days too: https://somafm.loudfusion.com

This was the music a lot of the 1st .com boom as made to.

<HAPPY DANCE> 🕺

Back in the late 90s, early 00s, when I was an overworked LAMPstack developer making web database 1.0, whatever bullshit, my caffeine-fueled code trance was stimulated by the grooves of one Monkey Radio

https://web.archive.org/web/20040622180004/http://www.monkeyradio.org/

It wasn't streaming as we know it today, it was (one of the Winamp leads) Shoutcasting awesome tunes.

Some good egg has recreated the Monkey Radio playlist in Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1plJAm2h7qXQtxkSl82DDz?si=6b40a66842dd423d

#shoutcast #monkeyradio #groovysexybeats