But the sound of Y2K wasn't just music — it was you heard it.
Before streaming, before lossless audio, and before everyone carried a thousand songs in their pocket — there was , better known as Dolby Digital .
Dolby AC-3 (Audio Codec 3) was the backbone of:
Y2K aesthetics are easy to spot: metallic fabrics, translucent plastic electronics, bubbly fonts, cyber swirls, and a utopian/dystopian tension about the year 2000. Think The Matrix , Pokémon on Game Boy Color, TRL on MTV, and PlayStation 2 startup screens.
