The Constitution requires that Members of the House be at least 25 years old, have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and live in the state they represent (though not necessarily the same district).
1981: First test CD created in Hannover, Germany by the Polydor Pressing Operations plant. 1982: Manufacturing of CDs began on a large scale in a factory. 1982: First ever album on a CD released by Sony, which was Billy Joel's 52nd Street. 1983: CD players and discs hit the market in the US and the rest of the world. 1984: Advanced technology to store and retrieve data from CD-ROM introduced. 1985: CD-ROM drives introduced in the US and world markets.
The first laser disc, demonstrated in 1972, was the Laservision 12-inch video disc. The video signal was stored as an analog format like a video cassette. The first digitally recorded optical disc was a 5-inch audio compact disc (CD) in a read-only format created by Philips and Sony in 1975. Five years later, the same two companies introduced a digital storage solution for computers using this same CD size called a CD-ROM.