In 2005, Raphaël Arbuz and Thibault Vanhulle, intrigued by online music quizzes, encountered a song they couldn't recall during one of their quizzes. Vanhulle conceived an idea of creating a platform where users could hum a tune to identify songs. Arbuz embraced the concept, leading to their collaboration on coding and early production efforts from 2005 to 2006. Additionally, they hired one of Arbuz's classmate, Erez Abittan, to further develop the website. During the website's development, Arbuz identified the creation of a
Java applet for an
audio recording system as the most challenging aspect. Neither Arbuz nor Vanhulle had access to a
Flash server from
Adobe, which provides simpler technologies for developing recording systems. Another contributor to the sites popularity is that the website has become a notable hotspot for
lost media, particularly
lostwave songs. A notable example is "
Ulterior Motives". ==See also==