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.
In 1991, Pioneer announced a new format they had invented called âDigital Versatile Discâ or DVD as it became known. The little shiny disc would do to VHS what CDâs did to vinyl and cassette tapes before it. In 1997, the first DVD player (the Thompson DTH1000U) hit the high street and VHSâs fate was set. By the end of the 90â²s smaller video shops had started to close, leaving the bigger chains like Blockbuster to mop up the rest.