A Compact Disc (CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry.CD-ROM drives employ a near-infrared 780 nm laser diode.

It has been one of the swiftest revolutions in recorded history. Almost everyone, it seems, has joined the rebels, and only a stalwart few now cling to the crumbling old regime. Long live the CD, t… ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped ...

The CD was jointly developed by Philips and Sony and the disc has also become a key storage method for computer users. The first CD produced was The Visitors by Abba. Piet Kramer, who was a member of ...

In 1973, he designed and built a prototype of the compact disc — the CD. ... His breakthrough also eventually led to the development of CD-ROMS for storing computer data.

The first sample compact disc - better known as a CD - was created 40 years ago. How well have they stood the test of time? ... In 2001, iTunes was launched by computer company Apple.

UCSD Scientists Develop Novel Way To Screen Molecules Using Conventional CDs And Compact Disk Players. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2003 / 08 ...

While there’s already way, way too many different competing memory card formats out there, Compact USB Disk, which will be two-thirds smaller than CF, has one advantage: it can be connect ...