30 years ago today , a biz - deepen pair of products were announced : Billy Joel ’s 52nd Street on Compact Disc , and the Sony CDP-101 , the first equipment to be able-bodied to play it . Andthe long time of the CD was born .
A joint campaign of Phillips and Sony , which had both been working independently on different versions of the technical school throughout the 70s , the little 12 cm across-the-board cyber - record started making their mark on the human race flop from the beginning , particularly by dragging the medicine industry into the digital age . The CD was only ever specify to be a replacement for traditional phonograph recording , but in June of 1985 , the CD - ROM was carry , really cement the disc ’s seat in innovative day life .
Now , 30 geezerhood later , the CD is mostly on its way out . Physical medicine leverage are being cannibalized by downloading — which itself is being cannibalized by streaming — and stack of people are actually turning back to vinyl if they want to buy an existent thing . It seems tentative anyone will be collecting CDs yr down the personal credit line , but even if no one is interested in your old Vanilla Ice CDs , the pattern - factor know on with other optical discs , and for a lot of us , the terminal figure “ CD ” is still synonymous with “ record album . ”
So here ’s to you , Compact Disc . Happy 30th birthday . We ’ll be seeing you around , if not in memory board than at least in a shoebox in the cupboard , hopefully next to the one with the Disc Doctor . [ The Next Web , Wikipedia ]
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