1994 was when the CD felt peak, even though it grew in popularity later.
1994 was still solidly in the floppy era, and getting a CD-ROM was huge, even larger than some hard drives at the time.
If you had a CD-ROM drive in 1994, you were king.
1994 was still solidly in the floppy era, and getting a CD-ROM was huge, even larger than some hard drives at the time.
If you had a CD-ROM drive in 1994, you were king.
"Peak of new people having access to their first cdrom drive"... hmm.
"Peak of this new thing totally changing the game, even if it gets more popular later, because it's mundane by the time that happens."?
"Peak of breathless press releases about MuLtImEdIa Cd-RoM"... That's probably it.
CD-ROM drives first started not being put in Mac laptops in 2008, so the peak "units sold" would have been somewhere in the early 2000s. But by then Internet speeds were fast enough and other methods existed, so they were waning in popularity/excitement.