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If you were listening to the radio in the 90s, or got a certain flavour of email forward, there's a good chance you've heard the song Jingle Cats. The original novelty single from 1993 is exactly what it sounds like—pitch-bent cat meows set to music to create the illusion cats are "singing" Jingle Bells. It was an absolutely huge hit and, between 1993 and 2009, led to the release of four full albums along with "Jingle Dogs" and "Jingle Babies" spinoffs[1]. Exciting stuff, surely. The empire...| CD-ROM Journal
As long as computers have existed, we've had the desire to type funny little symbols into them. Until emoji was standardized globally in the 2010s, though, we really didn't have that many options for typing funny characters—unless you had a computer with dingbat fonts. Windows users of a certain era probably remember the Wingdings font that came with the operating system, but for many people that was probably their only dingbat font. But there were many more options out there! So long as yo...| CD-ROM Journal
NOTE: The artwork discussed in this article contains explicit nudity and sexual content. Excerpts of the work are depicted for the purpose of commentary.| CD-ROM Journal
What kind of life would a dog have at the North Pole? What could a puppy do to help Santa? Under The Fir Tree: The Day of St. Claus (もみの木の下で The Day of St. Claus), an interactive storybook for Mac released in 1994, follows a small dog after they get stranded far from home and adopted by Santa.| CD-ROM Journal
Sometimes, all you need is to take two things you love and put them together. For visual artist and classical musician Mitsuhiro Amada, that's classical art, classical music, and cats.| CD-ROM Journal
"When drinking water, think about the source"—or so says the old Chinese proverb. When explorer Wong How Man's parents told him this as a child, though, they couldn't have imagined that it would take him 6,300 kilometres up the Yangtze.| CD-ROM Journal
I've seen many CD-ROM retrospectives that credit Myst and The 7th Guest (both 1993) as the "first CD-ROM game" or "first CD-ROM adventure". Other sources may cite games a year or two earlier, or into the 80s, but there's little consistency in the definition of what a "CD-ROM game" even is. Is it any game on a CD-ROM? Is it a game created first or solely for CD-ROM, or does a CD version of a floppy game count? Does it only count computer games and not console games?| CD-ROM Journal
Classical Cats| cdrom.ca