When online audio first became available, it was available only in form of discrete files that took up a lot of space. The size of your message was limited. This was especially true in the days before 1GB RAM become commonplace. There was a time when a home computer was restricted to 16KB. However did we manage! Yet 48K was high tech in those days. Customers would not download files just to hear your sales message, so it was dead before it hit the water. Now, however, we have streaming audio, and file size is no longer a problem. The sound file is streamed over the internet in packets that are replayed ….