What could be better than a new Sarah McLachlan album? How about one with videos and stills of her embedded in a CD-ROM that’s built right into the audio CD. Surfacing contains a short film of ...

This has been the dominant way of using consumer optical media for some time. Step back to the early CD-ROM era, though, and things were a little kookier. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...

A virtual CD-ROM emulator works by allowing you to copy and run an image of a CD on your computer. The process serves as an alternative to placing a disc in your computer each time you want to use ...

So, in the days before ubiquitous internet connectivity, CD-ROM technology went a long way toward expanding the research horizons for college students. Essentially a digital version of a card catalog, ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...