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Remember the ’90s, when every incoming email triggered its own cheery alert and mailboxes overflowed with free CD-ROMs from AOL?
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Thomas H. Ruggie, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
For those unaware, Lunar: The Silver Star, the first game in the series, debuted on the Sega CD peripheral for Sega Genesis back in 1992 (or 1993 in North America) featuring high-quality CD-ROM sound, full motion anime-style video cutscenes, and lots of voice acting.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to the purchase of a new CD-ROM burner.
—Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2025
In 1989, the advent of CD-ROMs further revolutionized computing by introducing multimedia experiences.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Starting as a contractor at Microsoft in the fledgling CD-ROM group in 1988, Alan has worked on a variety of projects in his time here, from Age of Empires, to Brute Force as the studio head of Digital Anvil, to the founding of Turn 10.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
The nineties saw the emergence of CD-ROM recipe books like the MasterCook series.
—Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
State of play: The Intuit tax software provider is closing the chapter on the once-ubiquitous CD-ROMs that customers used to process their returns every year, Axios has learned.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
Myst was the classic most people remembered fondly from the early CD-ROM era, but for me, its sequel, Riven, was the highlight.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 30 June 2024
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Thomas H. Ruggie, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
For those unaware, Lunar: The Silver Star, the first game in the series, debuted on the Sega CD peripheral for Sega Genesis back in 1992 (or 1993 in North America) featuring high-quality CD-ROM sound, full motion anime-style video cutscenes, and lots of voice acting.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to the purchase of a new CD-ROM burner.
—Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2025
In 1989, the advent of CD-ROMs further revolutionized computing by introducing multimedia experiences.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Starting as a contractor at Microsoft in the fledgling CD-ROM group in 1988, Alan has worked on a variety of projects in his time here, from Age of Empires, to Brute Force as the studio head of Digital Anvil, to the founding of Turn 10.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
The nineties saw the emergence of CD-ROM recipe books like the MasterCook series.
—Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
State of play: The Intuit tax software provider is closing the chapter on the once-ubiquitous CD-ROMs that customers used to process their returns every year, Axios has learned.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
Myst was the classic most people remembered fondly from the early CD-ROM era, but for me, its sequel, Riven, was the highlight.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 30 June 2024
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“CD-ROM.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CD-ROM. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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