As interest in vinyl wanes and the compact disc seems set to experience a resurgence, we're taking a look back at the first commercially available CD ever made.

So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline, it seems. Everyone is streaming, so those charity shops once stacked high with boxes of discarded vinyl records now have stacks of old CDs instead at a ...

Compact discs originally hit the scene in 1982 ... The earliest drives operated at a paltry 1x speed, which refers to the rotation of the disc in the drive itself. These read at 150 kilobytes per ...

I got Green Day’s “Dookie” on compact disc, along with the album poster, for my birthday in 1994 when I was in sixth grade. I didn’t even have a CD player then, just a Walkman. I don’t ...