YEARDISC

n.

A high-school yearbook on CD-ROM.

Consider the high school yearbook: bulky, linear, pricey. Now consider theyeardisc: sleek, interactive, relatively cheap.

—Nathan Cobb, "Students go digital withyeardisc,"The Boston Globe, May 30, 1996

If Albert Lai's computer project is any indication, the time-honored tradition of signing high school yearbooks could soon go the way of the slide rule.

Lai and three classmates at North York's Earl Haig Collegiate have produced a CD-ROM yearbook — they call it aYeardisc— that talks and moves, sings and struts.

—"Students yearbook a CD-ROM,"The Toronto Star, June 21, 1995

crop

memory book

Hardware

Education

wow, i can't believe you captured this on the web! esp.given the article and "invention" was considered to be mostly "pre-web."

Where did you find the Toronto Star reference?Great to hear from you, Albert! Lexis-Nexis archives newspaper articles (including the Toronto Star) going back to the 1980s.