Yes, Compact Disc (CD) has been in our daily life for exactly 25 years since it’s introduced by Philips on August 17, 1982. Some people estimate over 200 Billion have been sold (looks like the golden arches had some competition after all). Besides storage capacity the big difference was the audio quality the jump from analog to digital created. Although its good brother DVD has been around for few years, and there are new comer HD-DVD and Blu-ray options, Compact Disc are still going to be used for data recording in the near future, well, might still be a long way to go.

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