12:01 PM PST 12/31/2014 by. Serial fans have started keeping an eye on The Intercept after the publication scored a coveted interview with Jay Wilds, the key witness in Maryland's case against Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee.
Take 1. The record player was originally invented in America by Thomas A. Edison the creator of the light bulb and other inventions. It was invented by Thomas in 1877. The first records were made out of tinfoil which had a spiral groove which went up and down.
The first working prototype was produced in 1979, and CD players were released in 1982. Sony introduced the world's first CD player, the CDP-101 on October 1st, 1982. It hit the market with a retail price of about $900 and featured the now familiar slide out tray loading mechanism for the first time.