CHEE5E says:

The first CDs rolled off the presses at the Philips factory near Hannover, Germany on August 17, 1982.

uk.news.yahoo.com/

Happy Birthday to the CD! Where would we be if it weren't for CDs?
No DVDs or Blu-Ray.....

So yeah lets hear for the CD.

Happy Birthday!

08/17/2007 CHEE5E @ myps3, mypsp & my360

coffeeboy says:

Happy Birthday CD my friend! hahaha

08/17/2007

mateo1 says:

Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Happy Birthday my friends, the Compact Disc hopefully you will live on for another 25yrs Cute Monkey also

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

callan5 says:

What about cassettes? are they still in?........................................... Awesome stuff about CD's there!

08/17/2007 perth, WA

grey_snake says:

Call that compact?

I can barely squeeze into it...

08/17/2007 Brisbane - start.select@hotmail.com

Cherrona says:

I had no idea that CD's have been around for that long. O_O But then again I didn't really give it much thought. Great find CHEE5E.

08/17/2007 Silent Hill -The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh

grey_snake says:

Yeah come to think of it...

...im 25 and i didnt see my first one till i was in year 8 or 9 '94/95...

08/17/2007 Brisbane - start.select@hotmail.com

longarms says:

happy birth day CD, you gave us good music and good games

08/17/2007 Central Coast (NSW)

callan5 says:

We owe alot to CD's just think of all the rotating they do.......*cricket sounds* This will be Blu Ray in 10 years just you watch

08/17/2007 perth, WA

mateo1 says:

you mean 25 years callan

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

Cherrona says:

lol Not with the way technology is going Mateo. Goodness knows what we'll have in the next 25 years. O_O

08/17/2007 Silent Hill -The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh

mateo1 says:

Technology will have to stop sooner of later and when it does...ill be ready

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

CHEE5E says:

You'll be ready? How? Whats the plan mateo? Please tell me..

08/17/2007 CHEE5E @ myps3, mypsp & my360

mateo1 says:

haha! lets just say ill never be left behind in technology again hehe, actually when i wrote that post, i didnt even know what i was on about

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

CHEE5E says:

OK then? Ummm but yeah in another 25yrs I wonder what sort of stuff will be around? Maybe there won't be Discs anymore? Me and my mate Dumbnutz think memory (HDD, MSs) is the way to go.

08/17/2007 CHEE5E @ myps3, mypsp & my360

mateo1 says:

In 25 years time you will only be able to buy movies off the internet like on itunes imo

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

roblaw says:

hmmm 5 years to the day after the death of the King!! i remember my grandfather coming home with an early Phillips CD player, i think he pay about $1200 for it! it was very basic, it had huge big colored buttons on the front

08/17/2007 GoldCoast, QLD! robpinit@hotmail.com

mateo1 says:

ye, have you still got it roblaw?

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}

CHEE5E says:  

Did it look like this one?



I to remember when my Dad got one but they would have been out a few years when he got it... It still works today....

08/17/2007 CHEE5E @ myps3, mypsp & my360

mateo1 says:

I remember the time my parents bought a dvd player it cost so much back then and we didnt have many dvds

08/17/2007 Brisbane, QLD {PSN = aimar120}