Happy 25th Birthday, Compact Disc!

Exactly 25 years ago, on the 17th of August 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the very first compact disc at their factory near Hanover in Germany. The idea of a recording medium that can be read without actually touching it is in fact a little over 40 years old now as the first who introduced the concept of a disc read by a laser beam was an engineer unhappy with the quality of the vinyl recordings.