These technology birthdays are always up for debate — are we basing birthdays on the first prototype? The first shipping product? The first patent application? What? There’s also no governmental agency to decide upon these highly important matters, so unfortunately, we’re at the mercy of the party planners.On the plus side, this chaos usually leads to more celebrations than usual, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing here. If you’ll recall, we actually celebrated the 25th birthday of the Compact Disc in 2007,