Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Wired's blog reports: *An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday today. In a press release issued Thursday the 16th, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced (194 billion of those accounted for by AOL sign-up disks) since the first one was stamped off the production line on August 17th, 1982."The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was “The Visitors” by ABBA. By the time CDs were introduced on the market in November 1982, a catalogue of around 150 titles – mainly classical music – had been produced. The first CDs and CD players – including Philips’ CD100 – were introduced in Japan in November, followed by a US & European market introduction in March, 1983."
Though the CD is past its prime, the form factor & basic technology saw renewal in the DVD and, later, next-gen formats such as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. Anyone remember how the thing was originally marketed as being indestructible? Remember those green pens that audiophiles would pay $20 for under the belief it would make the data sound better?.*
What was the first CD you ever purchased? Mine was Green Day's Dookie back in '94!
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posted by m | 12:00 PM
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Live, Throwing Copper
I was such a badass.
are you asking for the first CD that *I* bought with my saved up allowance money? if not, the first 2 cds my parents bought for me and my bro were depeche mode - 101.
i think that counts. heck, everything counts. in large amounts.
sorry :/
my family was a rather early adopter of this new technology. I remember my dad getting our first CD player, a Magnavox, for our family at Christmas in 1985. he bought me Wham's "Make it Big" and got my mom Lionel Ritchie's "Dancing on the Ceiling". i think the first disc i bought with my own (lawnmowing) money was DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper" in 1988. aw yeah.
george michael - faith in 1987, baby! hehehehe!
my first cassette i bought was bruce springsteen - born in the u.s.a. in '84.
Cake's Fashion Nugget. It was also the first cd I had confiscated by my parents when my mom heard those great lines from Nugget: "Shut the Fuck Up!"
mine was dookie also.
ah, middle school memories!
The first two CD's I bought with my paper route money were Peter Gabriel - Security and The B-52's - Cosmic Thing.
Strange bedfellows...
My first cd that I bought ..well 2 cuz I bought them at the same time was Motley Crue Theatre of Pain and Ozzy Ozzbourne Ultimate sin ... I was one of the first people in my small town to have a cd player. Worked my tush off for it. Thank god music has evolved now its Electro n Techno all the way....and I buy more music videos than standard cds well unless they are autographed
Ace of Base - "The Sign" in 1994 (I was 9 years old at the time)
Pablo Honey 1993 and I didn't even had a cd player... It was just so beautiful and I was only 11.
almost forgot, i bought oasis 'definitely maybe' that week too!
This should get a laugh....Wilson Phillips....and I still have it. No one stole it....I wonder why.
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That's funny... I have trouble remembering, but my first ceedee may very well have been 'Dookie' as well!
Yo Em-- I had 'The Sign' too but it was a tape.
My first CD was unfortunately Aqua's debut album (Barbie Girl anyone? and then their attempt at being respectable? Hilarious to look back now...)
My mum and dad still have a CD player from 1986 when they got it as a wedding present - and it still sounds better than many CD players of the moment!
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