First compact discs go on sale
1982 · Work
Sony and Philips launch the CD, the first mass digital audio format, beginning the shift from analogue to digital media.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts
Around 1982
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)