Happy 25th Anniversary, CD!
November 10, 2007 by Jo Minor
Our beloved compact discs turns 25 this year.
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It was on the 17th of August, 1982 when rows upon rows of the colourful and shiny discs that we?ve come to know and love came rolling out of an assembly line in Hanover, Germany.
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Under threat by digital music today, the compact disc or CD as we call it fondly has seen its golden years in the 90s when its usage bloomed in leaps and bounds - thanks to music enthusiasts who were replacing their aged cassettes and LPs with CDs. This, in turn, made the CD the most popular format for music.
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For those of you who want to know what was recorded on the first CDs to ever see the light of day, it was Richard Strauss? Alpine Symphony which plays just as perfectly today as it did the day it appeared in store shelves in 1982, say Holland?s Royal Philips Electronics NV and Japan?s Sony Corporation, which collaborated and jointly developed the CD.
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