The source for a huge argument in my family celebrates its 25th anniversary today. Although the CD’s development began back in the Seventies with Phillips, it was not until this day did the first commercial CDs became available for the public to buy.
All these years, I always thought the CD’s size was arbitrary or based upon some Metric standard but the article states Sony insisted on bumping it up from 11.5 cm to 12 cm so it could accommodate Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at 74 minutes, a marvel then since CDs are closer to 80 minutes now.
Despite the “growth” of digital downloads, I still prefer this form of hard copy.