Seems that we forgot to wish our good friend 'Compact Disk' a happy birthday on August 17th. It was that day in 1982 that the first CD was manufactured at a Philips factory in Langenhagen Germany, close to Hanover. Sony and Philips worked together to develop this new technology as a shift away from analog and into digital recordings leading to the eventual launch of the DVD and Blu-ray media technologies. This technological revolution sparked a big change for the music industry, skyrocketing music prices among other things. Since then there has been over 200 billion CD's sold, with Polygram holding the title of the first CD for ABBA's The Visitors album. However, people couldn't listen to them because the first CD players hit the Japanese shelves three months later, with the US and Europe not seeing them until March of 1983.
The computer virus also celebrated its 25th birthday earlier this year. So one thing we need, and one thing we definitely do not.
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8-21-2007 @ 1:47AM
chadej1971 said...
Don't want to pick, but shouldn't that be '1983'? I got my first CD player in 1986 and can't believe my middle class upbringing allowed me to be 7 years ahead of the curve
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8-21-2007 @ 9:10AM
Peter said...
I'll be picky too and point out that it is "Compact Disc" with a "C", not disk. Disc is generally used to refer to optical media, disk is used to refer to magnetic media.
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9-12-2007 @ 6:06AM
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