Finally.

That miracle storage technology of the 1980s, brought to us by Philips and Sony, died today; not that it hasn’t been dying for the best part of a decade, but this is the final tolling of the bell:

The only thing I rue about the passing of CDs, and to a far greater extent the predecessor LP record, is that electronic downloads no longer provide any scope for the photographer’s art. The LP offered a huge 12 inch-square canvas for photographs, that of the CD’s case was not even 20% of the area but still decent. And now it’s zero. A shame.