Another birthday

Posted by Matt Cipriano | No Comments

Besides Julia Child, there is another big birthday this week: 25 years ago today we saw the advent of the Compact Discs from the folks at Philips.

They changed the music industry drastically and opened the door for “next-gen” technology for computers and movies (like laser disc, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray).

Just try and find a cassette, 3.5″ Floppy (let alone a 5″ floppy), video tape or laser disc any more and you can tell the impact that CDs have had on all of us.

Just because iTunes sold it’s 3 billionth song the other day, they still have a bit to go before they pass the 200 billion CDs sold in the last 25 years. I mean really, it is still the industry standard for music.

Anyway, happy birthday to Compact Discs, here is to another 25 years!

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