And like eliminating the floppy disk drive from the iMac and instead putting the CD-ROM drive in is the thing that drove adoption of the CD-ROM.
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"I would say most young people today have no clue what a CD-ROM was," said Lawrence Miller, who in 1993 co-founded the now-defunct Southern California company Interotica, which specialized in CD-ROM porn.
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Prince's CD-ROM, which was called [His Symbol] Interactive, made the cut.
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In the case of the CD-ROM drive, it only took Myst.
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Following the tragic death of the CD-ROM software market, the company pivoted.
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These are good CD-ROM ducksYour browser does not support HTML5 video tag.
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One department sent a CD-ROM containing a single spreadsheet file through the mail.
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The official report was shared with members of Congress this morning via CD-ROM.
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And trust us, it has come a long way since its CD-ROM days.
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You got the umbrella or I think you could get the Encarta CD-ROM.
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The stiff, floaty, uncanny motion looks like something from a '90s CD-ROM video game.
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Worse: it was rumored that Sega had a CD-ROM add-on planned for the Genesis.
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The redacted Mueller report will be sent to Congress by CD-ROM at 11 a.m. Thursday.
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No CD-ROM games were ever produced for the Nintendo PlayStation — but it's not completely useless.
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LibriVox's audiobook catalog can be enjoyed by downloading audiobook files onto a computer, smartphone, or CD-ROM.
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Nintendo was looking to expand its wildly popular, but flagging, Super Nintendo console with a CD-ROM drive.
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"The project includes many reworked electronic devices—a CD-rom, an old scanner, reused electric motors," ::vtol:: explains.
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Nintendo was interested in the rising CD-ROM technology, which Sony was standardizing at the time with Philips.
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He wanted to fit a bootable CD-ROM, and a retro video game inside it, into a tweet.
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Solution: burn a CD-ROM consisting entirely of the Kasai Allstars material the film celebrates, cherrypicks, exploits, whatevs.
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Sold on CD-ROM at retailers like Target and GameStop for about $50, it could provide endless entertainment.
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Ioptics was founded by CD-ROM technology pioneer James Russell, and it had backing from Microsoft, among other investors.
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Freelancer instead had hand-designed content for its entire universe, itself a technological luxury of the CD-ROM era.
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Today, those boxed CD-rom sets have gone the way of the floppy disk, but Rosetta Stone is still around.
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When Verma asked his doctors for his medical records, they gave her five sheets of paper and a CD-ROM.
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And that meant that some of the earliest products produced for the CD-ROM format were of the reference variety.
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" He also noted that the rabbits' "stiff, floaty, uncanny motion looks like something from a '90s CD-ROM video game.
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If physical deterioration hasn't rendered the CD-ROM unreadable, it would take hours of labor to get the game working.
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Now, after endless hours of patient hacking, Ben Heck has gotten the actual CD-ROM drive to work on the machine.
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We covered 50 plus years of furniture trends from a 60s velvet wingback chair to a 90s CD-ROM patterned pillow.
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Image: Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-alityGrowing up, one of my favorite CD-ROM games was called The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield.
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The rivalry between Sony and Nintendo was very fresh and strong back then because of the whole SNES CD-ROM affair.
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Switching from cartridges to CD-ROM rendered cheat devices like Game Genie, which depended on connecting to a cartridge's pins, obsolete.
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The x200 was sold on the promise of faster speeds, CD-ROM compatibility, and the ability to connect to the internet.
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The PC games came on CD-ROM, and featured live-action video scenes that let you choose your character's response to questions.
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Generic voiceover, twinkly music, cringeworthy compositing, and a strange bearded man place this squarely in the Compuserve CD-ROM genre of advertisement.
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The current game takes advantage of Twitter's recent doubled character limit, letting him create a CD-ROM-compatible game in 277 characters.
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Like this gigantic cache of early computer graphics, originally published by Walnut Creek Software over 25 years ago on a CD-ROM.
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He released a CD-ROM in 1994, Prince Interactive, which featured unreleased music and a gamelike adventure at his Paisley Park Studios.
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The CD-ROM was sold to the public and the world as a way to bring interactive multimedia experiences into our homes.
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But when they took the thing out of the side of the ... where you put CDs in — was that a CD-ROM?
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Kennedy agrees to show me the video of his first surgery in Belize, which has been saved to an old-fashioned CD-ROM.
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At the same time, erotic game makers offered CD-ROM titles like Penthouse Select a Pet and The Interactive Adventures of Seymore Butts.
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"I lived in the front yard in my Volkswagen van while we created this first interactive CD-ROM called Nightwatch Interactive," Miller said.
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In the 1990s, she ran Berkeley Systems, which published the hit CD-ROM game "You Don't Know Jack"; sold a company called Reel.
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But they gave it away for free, because giving away a free video game on a CD-ROM was awesome marketing in 1997.
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Retro gadgets are having a moment: A 1992 Nintendo Play Station Super NES CD-ROM Prototype sold for $360,000 at auction on Friday.
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Never out of print, she has appeared in more than 153 books and counting, in movies, on television shows, in CD-ROM games.
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Apple also famously moved away from the floppy-disk drive with its iMac G3 in 1998, in favor of the CD-ROM drive.
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In the early 1990s, Nintendo partnered with Sony to develop a new CD-ROM peripheral for the wildly popular Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
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The advent of the CD-ROM era in the early 1990s allowed games to incorporate video, and developers sometimes built entire games around it.
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YouTuber Terrormink upcycled an old scanner, hard drive, and CD-ROM drive with some Meccano parts and an Arduino to run the whole thing.
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The concept was adapted for the digital age, first with a CD-ROM, then with video-game version for Nintendo, Leapster and other platforms.
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Fini's iMac altars, tucked in along the way, allow for prayer and even gameplay, with one running the fully-functional Secret Paths CD-ROM .
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The moral of Police Quest: Open Season becomes lecture in a collection of video interviews with Gates packaged as extras on the CD-ROM.
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I was eleven at the time, and I spent hours upon hours playing through the demo that came on a PC Gamer magazine CD-ROM.
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When I first heard Slipknot, the internet was little more than an Angelfire website and the terms and conditions held inside an AOL CD-ROM.
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Remember the early days of CD-ROM-based PC gaming, when it seemed like The 7th Guest and Myst were all people could talk about?
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In 1994, Myst had pushed computer graphics to new levels; anecdotally, its immersive and atmospheric worlds helped make the data-dense CD-ROM format mainstream.
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Since then, Twitter has doubled the character limit for Tweets, which gave Menghrajani the space to try to do it with again a CD-ROM.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica made a belated 1994 debut on the market, pricing its CD-ROM at $995, ten times the price of Encarta at the time.
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But to hear it from Esposito, Encyclopaedia Britannica had basically passed up the CD-ROM, instead choosing to put its energies more toward the internet.
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Last year, after filing a Freedom of Information Act request, I got a big document dump from the Department of Transportation — on a CD-ROM.
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Today, many patients are still given their data on a PDF printout or on a CD-ROM and hospitals still sometimes rely on fax machines.
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House Judiciary Committee staff was prepared for this possibility — among many — and checked they still have a computer with a working CD-ROM drive (they do).
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A serial entrepreneur, she built businesses in the entertainment industry for more than a decade, including the first CD-Rom magazine and a national television show.
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Apple was one of the first computer manufacturers to move away from CD-ROM drives in laptops when it unveiled the first MacBook Air in 2008.
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And late tech entrepreneur Dave Goldberg, who spent time at SurveyMonkey and Yahoo, got his feet wet in the tech world by selling CD-ROM magazines.
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It helped usher in a new wave of CD-ROM games, and up until 2002 it was widely considered the best-selling PC game of all time.
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The film's version of Shakespeare himself is played by Lemmy, while Tromeo (Will Keenan) is a sex-obsessed horndog who masturbates to porn on a CD-rom.
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Sites that specialize in free-to-play web games have migrated to newer technologies and its increasingly rare to even find a CD-ROM on newer PCs.
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Still, the idea of politicians scrambling around to find a working CD-ROM drive is pretty entertaining, even if the contents of that 400-page document aren't.
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Think again.) While costs came down in the CD-ROM era, the ability and compulsion to pad out games with more (often repetitive) content only got worse.
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That's the challenge that security engineer Alok Menghrajani gave himself: to squeeze a CD-ROM holding a retro-style video game into the space of a single tweet.
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But almost at its inception, CD-R had overtaken the market and when Apple introduced the CD-ROM-based iMac in 1998, it was all downhill from there.
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Writing up reports meant cracking open an encyclopedia or going to the library to fire up Encarta on CD-ROM instead of just going to Wikipedia or Google.
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Years ago, Rosetta Stone relied on CD-ROM sets to teach you your chosen language, but in the year of our Lord 2019, you just need an internet connection.
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One of the first major fights over personal data involved a planned Lotus CD-ROM product called Marketplace: Households, which paired names with addresses, income ranges, and other information.
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Back in 1992, NASA reissued the golden record in CD-ROM form, and it recently posted digital versions of the greetings and sounds onto SoundCloud, though minus the music.
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Within 280 characters, Menghrajani crafted code that creates a CD-ROM disk image, which can either be booted up in a virtual machine or burned to a physical disc.
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The SNES CD-ROM adapter, called the PlayStation, would stack on top of existing SNES consoles, and Sony planned to release a standalone version of the console as well.
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Accessories were a key element to the show, with boots draped in MOSCHINO garlands, life-size CD-ROM earrings, MOSCHINO padlock purses, extravagant gold chain necklaces, and (so much) more.
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Old magazines, software catalogs, floppy discs containing productivity software, educational games, and dictionaries for the Apple II. Once, he went searching for every AOL free trial CD-ROM ever published.
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It's recognizably Rayman, although without the rich animation that Unseen64 claims was part of the reason why Ubisoft decided to reboot its development for the fantasy new CD-Rom powered consoles.
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A decade later, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, a laptop Apple made razor-thin by eliminating the CD-ROM drive and the Ethernet networking port — both industry standards at the time.
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"Reference materials on CD-ROM are being 'bundled' in order to advance the claims of technology companies (principally Microsoft) to the standard platform for electronic publishing," he wrote at the time.
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Proponents of the change are trying to modernize patient access to their data, because it's still common for health systems to only make it available via a CD-ROM or fax.
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In the early 1990s, Nintendo partnered with Sony to develop a new CD-ROM console and attachment for the Super Nintendo system, resulting in a prototype fans call the Nintendo PlayStation.
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Barton was later assigned to work on a project for a CD-ROM based travel guide, which helped give him the idea to create a travel booking system that later became Expedia.
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And even when medical providers comply with requests, the results can be confusing and inconvenient — requiring fax machines, CD-ROM discs with unfamiliar file formats, or photocopies of pages in a physician's scrawl.
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As a store where DJs and listeners alike could purchase MP3s and WAVs, Beatport was part of the digital wave replacing CD-ROM and vinyl, creaky technologies that had been around for decades.
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"With our CD-ROM encyclopedia, you'll easily find dozens of references to a topic, instead of just the obvious three or four," Frank J. Farrell, the president of Grolier Electronic Publishing, explained to Takiff.
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There's been digital accessories for the game in the past, such as TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons CD-ROM Core Rules in 1996, and it's pretty easy to get PDF versions of character sheets to print out.
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In addition to a quirky game that involved searching the CD-ROM contents for puzzle pieces to recreate his symbol, or what we called "the Glyph," there were embedded music videos and interviews with Prince's contemporaries.
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When they finished, Salahi's lawyers delivered a CD- rom with the scanned pages to Larry Siems, a writer and a human-rights advocate, who has written extensively on government misconduct in the aftermath of 9/11.
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The discoveries are like cut-scenes from an old-school CD-ROM, and navigating the narrative through the map felt a little like playing one of those hypnotic smartphone games that divides the play into chapters.
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Myst is a strange title: essentially a Hypercard stack so big it had to be loaded on a CD-ROM, it was also one of the most intriguing and visually exciting games to come out in years.
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Soon after, Macromedia, the firm behind Director, an interactive authoring tool then popular with CD-ROM based multimedia software, quickly snapped up Altsys and made Freehand (with a lowercase H) a key part of its software offering.
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Jellyvision began life as an educational software company that quickly morphed into the gaming company responsible for such late 90s hits as You Don't Know Jack and the CD-ROM version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
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" In this now infamous piece, Stroll wrote this: "[N]o online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
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Most of them aren't animated, because this CD-ROM was published in August 1992, a month before the jpeg was even released, back when the GIF file format was still one of the better choices for a static image.
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Brother Vellies makes the handwoven baskets and huaraches that many U.P.G.'s like to pair with their dresses, and created a capsule collection with Batsheva of her classic styles subverted in sheer iridescent (called the CD Rom) and latex.
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But starting off wasn't cheap or easy: According to InfoWorld, Microsoft agreed to let Bookshelf be bundled with an early CD-ROM in 1987, at a cost of $4003,099 for the full package—or, with inflation added, $2,400 today.
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"On that base, it is faster to burn a presentation to a CD-ROM and drive it to the other side of the base than it is to put it on the infrastructure and have someone else access it," he explained.
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In the forum I met a fan in Paris, Cédric, who took pity on an American, cut off from all other Madrugada fans, and sent me, snail mail, a CD-ROM with more than 20 live recordings he had collected.
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Revolving around what sounds like a sample of howling wolves from a 90s CD-ROM game, this track is a more straightforward disgusting kind of "noise" than most of the artist's material, while still dabbling in familiar forms of psychedelic heaviness.
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After The Owl's Legacy, ambitious in its scope but a bit tame in form, Marker would push further into different fields, such as more installation work (Zapping Zone, Silent Movie), CD-ROM (Immemory), and virtual reality (his Second Life museum, Ouvroir).
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Popping the CD-ROM in the drive — which spun as loudly as you'd expect — I loaded the setup executable and was greeted by this image: For reference, "0+>" is the ASCII representation of the unpronounceable symbol that became Prince's name in 1993.
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A 1989 article for Online noted that the goal of the software, which was literally called ROI, was to allow for access to CD-ROM databases both within libraries and outside of them, while ensuring the creators of those databases got paid.
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If you can remember building your own spec'd-out computer in order to play games like Half-Life or Rogue Squadron, you'll enjoy this nostalgic trip down memory lane that includes antique technologies like the Pentium III processor, floppy disks, and CD-ROM drives.
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Unfortunately, after being walloped by a burst of cosmic radiation, the Kicksat-1 container (the thing that looks suspiciously like a CD-ROM tower in the video above) failed to deploy its cargo of 104 Sprites, which fell back into our atmosphere and were destroyed.
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Part of the reason for this success was due to a tightly-wound manufacturing process, which allowed the company's computers (which were manufactured in the US, by the way) to be early out of the gate with components like CD-ROM drives and Pentium processors.
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First and foremost, because Microsoft didn't simply collapse during the massive global shift to mobile computers from desktop PCs and software sold as a subscription service instead of on a CD-ROM in a cardboard box — the way Microsoft had become the world's dominant software company.
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Additionally, devices like Amazon Echo, Google Chromecast, and the Apple TV are powered by content and intelligence that's in the cloud — as opposed to the DVD box set of Little House on the Prairie or CD-ROM copy of Encarta you might've enjoyed in the personal computing era.
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To compete and stay relevant against this onslaught of start-up rivals backed by well-heeled investors like Kleiner Perkins, the company got rid of the boxed CD-rom sets and became a subscription-based business, joining the ever-growing number of companies offering software-as-a-service.
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In 1994, Bowie released a CD ROM alongside his track "Jump, They Say," which let buyers make their own accompanying music video, and he was one of the first major artists to put a new song — 1996's "Telling Lies" — out exclusively on the internet, selling 300,000 copies in the process.
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Why it matters: While the streaming economy has been a steal for consumers who can get access to millions of songs on-demand for less money per month than the cost of a CD-ROM, it's been difficult for rights holders and musicians, which is why so many of them lobbied for MMA.
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It helps startups not only by leveraging the experience of Rubin and the other co-founders — who were central in bringing wildly popular products like smartphones, web TV and CD-ROM video games to market — but also by providing the basic building blocks startups can use to bring new hardware to life.
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What's more, the 22-year-old CD-ROM is ancient enough that it can't run on any Windows version more recent than XP. If you have a registration key for any of the earlier Windows versions, it's possible to set up a virtual drive using software like DOSBox and install Old Windows from there.
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It's true enough that Prince said, "The internet is over" in 2010, but he probably meant the internet he had helped to create by being one of the very first recording artists to take advantage of the fledgling technology in 1994, when he embarked on a "virtual tour" via 1994's Interactive CD-ROM.
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By the end of the 80s and beginning/mid of the 90s there weren't 128 GB USB-Sticks, Blu-Rays or 5 TB HDDs and all we had for saving data were floppy disks with 1,44 MB or even less—hard disks were just too expensive and a new thing called 'CD-ROM' was even more expensive.
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