Internet Underground Music Archive
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The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was a pioneer of on-line music. IUMA was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993, for the purpose of providing a venue for unsigned artists to share their music and communicate with their audience. It provided artists who registered with a free URL and web page.
Artists could present their music over the Internet in stream, download, and internet radio format. Further, it provided an easy-to-use home page for the band and the ability to distribute their music with no bandwidth fees.
Interesting extras included a "charts" section where bands were tracked by how many people visited their page and downloaded their music. At one point, IUMA was sending royalty checks to bands.
In 2000, IUMA offered US$5,000 to couples who named their baby "Iuma". Several families took up the offer. [1]
Early in 2006, the IUMA website disappeared from the Internet. The site had already been closed to new submissions since 2001, when funding was lost. [2] The operation was then sold to Vitaminic. [3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ It's a boy.com! (article on Iuma Dylan-Lucas Thornhill). BBC (2000-08-17). Retrieved on September 28, 2006.
- ^ IUMA ceases operations. CD Baby (2001-02-07). Retrieved on June 28, 2006.
- ^ IUMA acquired and re-launched by Vitaminic. IUMA (via archive.org) (2001-02-07). Retrieved on March 23, 2006.
[edit] External links
- IUMA is a dead link; use the Internet Archive link instead
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