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Early commercial broadcasts within the traditional radio format happen to be happening since the 1920s. The first live internet exclusive radio broadcast was Seattle based rock group Sky Cries Mary and took place on the 10th November 1994. It had been broadcast by Starwave an electronic media start up of Paul Allen.

During the same month, only a week later the Rolling Stones had a concert that was the "first major cyberspace multicast concert."

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Also during the same month WXYC were the first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the web. WXYC had begun testing bandwidth and broadcasting in August 1994. On the day that WREK using CyberRadio1 software started streaming their beta launch and advertising of their stream didn't happen until afterwards.

In 1995 a free download called RealAudio was launched by Progressive Networks. It was reported by Time magazine it took "advantage from the latest advances in digital compression" and delivered "AM radio-quality sound in so-called real-time." Soon after Nullsoft and Microsoft released free downloads of audio players with streaming capabilities. Increasingly more online radio stations began to spring up as audio player software be easily available.

One of the earliest American 24-7 internet radio stations licensed by BMI and ASCAP was Sonicwave.com, which was developed by Edward Lyman.

Within the same year Europe's first radio station to broadcast its traditional program on the web entirely was Virgin Radio working in london. It had been available 24 hours a day and would be a live version of its FM signal.

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After the 1990s internet radio began to attract huge investor and media attention. In the usa in 1998 Broadcast.com set an archive in it initial public stock offering for that largest jump in price available offerings. The sale price was $18, whereas the outlet price for shares was $68 when trading opened on the first day. It was more surprising since company was taking a loss at the time plus they themselves had produced in certainly one of their prospectuses that they didn't expect that tot change in the near future. On the 20th July 1999 Yahoo bought the company for $5.7 billion.

In 1998 in Sydney, Australia NetFM's The Vinyl Lounge (longest running internet radio show) started net casting.

After 2000 stream quality improved as bandwidth became cheaper now most stations stream somewhere between 64 kilobits per second and 128 kilobits per second that is close to being CD quality radio.