Happy Birthday to the Audio CD - 25 Today

[engine]

The first compact disc was produced exactly 25 years ago in a factory in Germany after years of development by Philips and Sony.

The first commercial CDs pressed were The Visitors by Abba and a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss.

Happy Birthday to the Audio CD - 25 Today [news.bbc.co.uk]

There is some interesting history there in that story from the BBC.

[Fiver]

Over the hill at 25.

well really that's not bad for modern tech.

[Essex_boy]

You know your getting old when you can remember XYZ format being released.

[engine]

Yes, EB, I understand that so well.

I was so excited to get my first CD player to replace the vinyl record player and compact cassette. W-Hey!

What I still find hard to fathom is that CD players are only recently being fitted to cars, and that their shelf life in a car may be cut short by MP3 player capability.

[Compworld]

Wow I did not even know people still used CD's. Have not bought one since like 96.

[vincevincevince]

I'm slowly starting to phase out the use of tapes in favour of MP3 storage. I can't stand CDs and they can't stand even the slightest wear. Of course, DVDs are much worse...