As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

“They didn’t believe in CD-ROM at all”: One Hardware Choice Ripped the First Final Fantasy from Nintendo and Crowned Sony Instead Due to a stubborn hardware belief, Nintendo couldn't surface the first ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

ROME, N.Y. -- Today marks National CD Player Day, and an interesting fact is that the inventor of CD-ROM technology was from Rome. John Dove was born on June 4, 1924, in North Carolina. After serving ...

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I wrote this C++ project in 2012 with Visual Studio to have a ton of DVDs automatically copied to a network storage. I did some small updates in 2022 to make the old code compile with JetBrains CLion.