Happy 25th Birthday, Compact Discs!

[Anonymous]

Some quick facts about the C

First company to produce them? Phillips.
Country they were first made in? Germany.
Total number of CDs sold worldwide? 200 billion.

First artist to have an album put to CD? ABBA!

[Mikey]

Some quick facts about the C

First company to produce them? Phillips.
Country they were first made in? Germany.
Total number of CDs sold worldwide? 200 billion.

First artist to have an album put to CD? ABBA!

Cool.

[youthquake]

i just bought some today. happy birthday! welcome to your new home! I WILL BURN YOU. legally, of course.

[Jetsetlemming]

I have a CD from the early days. :O Some Jethro Tull album. It's l33t.
Well, kinda.

[b1gwi11]

i have some old cd-r's that have a 4x max write speed.... theyre ub3r l33t

[Raype]

CD's have been legal all this time and nobody told me?

AWESOME!

EDIT- Uh, suppose theorhetically someone with large fingers got one stuck inside that hole in a CD. Except that person was me and the finger was a penis. How would you get it off?

[Anonymous]

CD's have been legal all this time and nobody told me?

AWESOME!

EDIT- Uh, suppose theorhetically someone with large fingers got one stuck inside that hole in a CD. Except that person was me and the finger was a penis. How would you get it off?

Bag O' Bricks.

[b1gwi11]

cut it off.

or "take care of it"

assuming its an erect "finger" of course.

[youthquake]

try it with a record, d00d. while it's playing. THREAD THE NEEDLE.

[Mistral]

EDIT- Uh, suppose theorhetically someone with large fingers got one stuck inside that hole in a CD. Except that person was me and the finger was a penis. How would you get it off?

Sledge hammer. Simply the threat should serve to reformat your hard drive to a floppy diskette, and if threat alone doesn't suffice, well...the proper application in the affected sectors should suffice.

[Evans]

CD's have been legal all this time and nobody told me?

AWESOME!

EDIT- Uh, suppose theorhetically someone with large fingers got one stuck inside that hole in a CD. Except that person was me and the finger was a penis. How would you get it off?

I'd laugh it off. Dunno if it would help you, though.

Oh, and those holes are like a centimeter wide.

[Jackhammer]

Meh, I still use vinyl...