Grumpy Old Geeks Topics CD-ROM era Topic CD-ROM era 2 mentions in 1 episode The period of multimedia publishing before widespread internet distribution, as Canter describes it. Mentions 187: Marc Canter, The Godfather of Multimedia Nov 25, 2016 16:09 It was more or less called the CD-ROM era. 17:04 85% of all those CD-ROMs were all created with director.