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  • I'm excited about all of this activity because for more than 20 years, I have helped artists and companies develop new forms of storytelling across many platforms movies, music, TV, PCs, CD-ROMs, game consoles, mobile phones, set-top boxes, the Web.

    Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia is Catching On Tribeca Film 2011

  • Back then, some CD-ROMs were "dual-format" with Mac and PC "sides" (metaphorically speaking ... when you inserted the disk in a computer, you would see only the files appropriate to that computer).

    David D. Levine, Wild Cards author grrm 2009

  • Now, they both touch upon electronic forms of research and they both note that this is the way of the future, but there is little mention of the internet as a tool with more emphasis on CD-ROMs (remember those?) and the like.

    Waddams v. Hutchinson : Law is Cool 2009

  • I'm excited about all of this activity because for more than 20 years, I have helped artists and companies develop new forms of storytelling across many platforms movies, music, TV, PCs, CD-ROMs, game consoles, mobile phones, set-top boxes, the Web.

    Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Why Transmedia is Catching On Tribeca Film 2011

  • When Microsoft develops the entire next generation operating system in India, then sells the CD-ROMs from distribution centers in Redmond, were those sales considered part of the $7 billion or part of the $400 billion?

    Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • As soon as Web sites more properly support phones, the idea of having an app installed on your phone to reach a web site or web services is going to seem as antiquated as CD-ROMs.

    How Apple Put Everyone In an App State of Mind 2009

  • DVDs hold a lot more space than CD-ROMs—it's about 20 times as big so it's got 7,500 surviving sketches that led to "Maus"'s 400 notebook pages, audio interviews, transcripts.

    An Author Retraces His Steps Barbara Chai 2011

  • There was a moment where CD-ROMs were the Internet; it lasted about five seconds.

    An Author Retraces His Steps Barbara Chai 2011

  • When all was new and Voyager/Criterion was rolling out "hyperbooks" CD-ROMs you could click around on, what would we have made of a critic like Matt Zoller Seitz, who today creates elaborate video essays demonstrating an awesome command of movie imagery on websites like Salon?

    Film Criticism Is Dying? Not Online Roger Ebert 2011

  • In 1994 he released Xplora 1, one of the first multimedia CD-ROMs created by a mainstream artist.

    Five People Born on February 13 | myFiveBest 2010

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