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Tag results: Cd-rom

Fluorescent Dreams

We don’t talk enough about vaporware over here, so let’s discuss two attempts to make optical discs fluorescent … both of which went absolutely nowhere.

Resident Memories

How a San Francisco art collective carved a unique path through the creative combination of art and technology.

Bog-Standard Multimedia

Why the PC industry standardized on multimedia in the early ’90s, and why that standardization effort didn’t really last.

Boot Vector

How the live CD, now an essential part of playing around with Linux-based operating systems, found its early footing using a widely mocked disc variant.

Caddy Confusion

Trying to answer a complicated question for myself, as a computer user during the multimedia era: Why did the CD-ROM caddy exist, and why didn’t I have one?

Let’s Lock Information Down

DRM, one of the internet’s dark arts, was already in the works—complete with epic patents—years before the existence of Napster gave it a business case.

A Business Card With Impact

How the CD-ROM influenced a particularly tacky variant on the business card around the turn of the 21st century.

Who Killed The Encyclopedia?

The fast demise of the physical encyclopedia came about thanks to an upstart publisher, an indecisive giant, and the world’s biggest software company.

A Magazine You Can't Bend

For a brief time in the '90s, publishers thought that CD-ROM magazines were the future. But, as it turned out, readers were more interested in the internet.
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