Did You Know What Is Cd-Rom

The CD-ROM acronym for Compact Disc Read Only Memory is a type of compact disks used in computer science for software distribution. It is therefore a type of computer memory. More specifically it is a type of mass storage read-only. The CD-ROM was the second practical application and implemented for the compact disc was developed jointly by Sony to Philips. Provide a maximum storage capacity of over 650 MB, were released in 1985 the year in which they were sold the first Compact Disc and are collected in the so-called Yellow Book.

The Yellow Book was created as an extension of the Red Book, the first practical application of specific techniques implemented for the CD, Audio CD, introduced in 1980.The Yellow Book is available free of charge. However, since the CD-ROM also an ISO / IEC (ISO / IEC 10149) and ECMA (ECMA-130), its specifications are freely available.

With the birth of the World Wide Web in 1991, offering multimedia content and the subsequent huge success of the Internet, the market-based multimedia Compact Disc in a few years has undergone a drastic downsizing. Various media that were previously sold on CD-ROMs were in fact made ​​available for free online as a Web application, others have been made ​​available for a fee, as a Web application or as downloadable software, but with the advantage of being available on-line at any time without the need of having to go into a store to purchase a CD-ROM.

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