What is a "CD-ROM"?

What is a "CD-ROM"?

Ethan Feerst and Dylan Stewart (Technology Therapist, Mac Guru) gives expert video advice on: What is a "search engine"?; What is the difference between "upload" and "download"?; What is "spam"? and more...

A CD-ROM was a very elegant and revolutionary way of storing all kinds of digital information. Most commonly, of course music. But the fact that music can be stored on a CD-ROM is simply an outgrowth of the fact that a CD-ROM can hold about 7 megabytes of data, and can be used to store documents and digital information, really, of any kind. And now the technology is easily and freely available, and if you're watching me now, you're probably on a computer that has the capability for both reading and burning CD-ROMs.