It marked an "epochal" change in the music industry.
Americans are only beginning to catch up with what this epochal change may imply.
Partly, the repeated claims of epochal changes reflected increasing competition in the business media and on Wall Street; big ideas, after all, attract attention.
Indonesia has entered a period of epochal change at a time when its people are becoming poorer, hungrier and more angry.
But the younger rebellion pales before the adult revolt, now sparking epochal changes.
These were epochal changes for Japan, after a century in which the main national motivation was to catch up with the West.
That is an epochal change, difficult to acknowledge in the same breath with campaign grandiosity, but one that will require dramatically new strategies and policies.
Yet these epochal changes do not seem to have registered on an aging Israeli leadership.
This epochal change deserves at least a measure of public scrutiny and discussion.
Now, an epochal change seems to be taking place.