History
The first laser disk, demonstrated in 1972, was the Laservision 12-inch video disk. The video signal was stored as an analog format like a video cassette. The first digitally recorded optical disc was a 5-inch audio compact disc (CD) in a read-only format created by Philips and Sony in 1975. Five years later, the same two companies introduced a digital storage solution for computers using this same CD size called a CD-ROM. Not until 1987 did Sony demonstrate the erasable and rewritable 5.25-inch optical drive.
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—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)