Who remembers CD longboxes? Early on, in the ’80s and into the first few years of the ’90s, compact discs were generally sold in slim, 12-inch tall cardboard boxes that were both decorative and functional, as it allowed retailers to place CDs for sale in bins and racks originally intended to hold vinyl LPs. However, as you can see in this 1992 MTV News clip, longboxes met an abrupt end when CDs began to be sold only in jewel cases.