Exactly 25 years ago the first Compact Disc was produced in a German factory.
The first commercial CDs pressed were The Visitors by Abba and a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss. (BBC News)
Credit: Wikipedia
So there are at least three reasons for me to pay tribute to this small shiny slice:
- It has been an innovation with enduring continuance.
- The probably most famous conductor of my home country, Austria, has been “immortalized” on the first copy.
- The CD prototype was unveiled to the world only a few days before my birth (in 1979).
