CD-ROM or just CD, a storage format made popular by the music industry so that they can sell many singles at ludicrously expensive price of more than USD10 per

CD-ROM or just CD, a storage format made popular by the music industry so that they can sell many singles at ludicrously expensive price of more than USD10 per song per CD. These singles are the special CD with the latest or popular songs that you cannot buy using normal CD that contained many songs by the same artist. One CD had the size of 650 MB meaning that for lossless audio song, the maximum number of songs is less than 20. Unless you are Michael Jackson or selling your best songs compilation, most of other songs in the CD are lousy except the one song that toping the charts provided that if you had any. In other words, many song in the CD are just unwanted fillers. Then somebody figured out you can perform lossy compression with mp3 and fit hundreds of songs in a single CD, but the music industry that has been selling singles CD for more than USD10 per piece is not going to sell hundreds of song in one CD for peanuts. Then came Napster revolution that empowered the consumer with easily accessible songs for less than peanuts (read free) and then not long after came lawsuits from Metallica. Steve Jobs by the virtue of being the boss of Disney, the darling of entertainment and music industry at the time, single handedly convinced the industry to sell a single song for 99 cents that can be downloaded from the Internet and saved the day for the music industry, then the rest is history and CD become history. After the demise of Steve, Apple become the first trillion dollars company and then the first three trillion dollars company in history.