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.
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Around 1982
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)