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[–] Bahnd 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If thats actually from the smithsonian in Washington DC, its probably in the recently renovated american history museum. There is a section in the lower levels all about technology and products the changed regulations. So they have an old ipod and lawn darts... Its very odd seeing that stuff be called history.

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet 22 points 7 months ago

This is an old pic from the Smithsonian Natural History museum. The geology wing, I think. It was supposed to be an example of gems refracting light or something.

On a side note, if you ever get the opportunity to go to a Smithsonian, fuckin do it. People, they had literal meteorites the size of sedans just sitting there with a sign on it encouraging you to touch it. I touched a fucking hunk of metal that had been careening through the void for a number of years my little monkey brain has trouble grappling with. Sorry. It left an impression. Go if you get the chance

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever gotten one of these stuck around your weiner?

That was an expensive day.

[–] Num10ck 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

the center hole of a compact disc is 15mm, or 0.590 inches.

Hopefully you meant the laserdisc?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Num10ck 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i guess you've found your niche then! hope you got some tunes out of it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was a copy of The Sims: Hot Date.

[–] TseseJuer 2 points 7 months ago

Leisuresuit Larry magnum cum laude!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There's something written to it.

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, of course I went down a rabbit hole on this. So far I'm unsuccessful, but I did find out the Smithsonian Institute has a searchable database of all their junk, which is neat.

My most narrow attempt

Anyone with Mastadon or Twitter wanna take a swing at getting their attention? The pic was taken August 31, 2019. Definitely the Natural History Museum in DC, pretty sure it was the geology wing? I'm gonna email them, see what I get.

Also, for posterity, I'm gonna say it's either Doom or the White Album

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Damn, good effort. Hopefully someone knows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

It’s the Baby Got Back CD single by Sir Mix-A-Lot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This also made me curious... like 40% of the disk is used...so around 250mb maybe?

[–] Hule 4 points 7 months ago

Well, is it a 650MB one or a 730MB one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you know how much of the disc is used?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

there is a slight variation in the color of the disk about halfway through it. then ya subtract a bit for the geometry in that there is more data in the outer rings because they are wider. it writes from insider->out

[–] ricdeh 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I mean, when have you last seen someone use a CD? Exactly.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 10 points 7 months ago

I often buy CDs from used media shops to rip the music in FLAC format to add to my digital collection!

[–] DocMcStuffin 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That depends on if you work for the government

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If they work for the government, they’ve seen someone use a floppy disk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Just be happy it wasn't punch cards

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I use them every day (it's the only way to listen music in my car)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That doesn't look very compact. Is there like a mini one??

[–] Fake4000 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's actually a compact disc compared to the previous laser disc.

[–] Chocrates 1 points 7 months ago

I finally got rid of my laserdiscs last year. My player broke years before and all the movies I had, I had blue rays of or could get on streaming. It was hard to justify toting around 20lbs of movies I couldn't play

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zoomboingding 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dang people don't know about GameCube anymore?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Those are Mini DVDs. Totally different technology.

You're right though, Mini CDs also exist, but were much rarer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Minidiscs are why every optical drive had a little divot for the smaller size. I only ever saw 2 disks in 30 years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Minidiscs were different, they're a proprietary Sony tech that was huge in Japan but never really took off in the US. That divot is for plain old small CDs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I ran into about five, not including game cube games.

I think one of them was bionicle related

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the ones ive seen were all little driver disks that came with some peripheral

[–] Hule 5 points 7 months ago

Watch out, mini CD and MiniDisc were two different things!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's what I was referring to as a joke. Lol

[–] mycodesucks 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is going on in the reflection? Is that thermostat headed to orbit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Looks like the exhibit across is rocks. looks like quartz?