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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My brothers and I would use these cds as throwing stars. Then we found out they explode if you throw em at a concrete wall. I’m sorry for all the microplastic pollution 😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

the rest of us threw them in the trash, and it was the same result.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For a very long time, every disk in my catalog was a repurposed AOL Floppy Disk with a piece of tape over the write-protect hole and a Post-It taped over the label. I didn't have to buy blank floppies from like 1994 to about 1999 when they switched to CDs.

Man, I kinda miss the days when junk mail was legitimately useful.

[–] 9point6 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why the fuck did I never think of thisβ€”I was out there buying floppies like an absolute rube

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

That's how Big Floppy has tricked us into buying more floppies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

At least somebody had a good use for them

[–] clearedtoland 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s a burial spot somewhere for old game cartridges too, right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] clearedtoland 8 points 2 days ago

$108k for those! With all the workers and equipment, I wonder if they profited. What a wild treasure hunt.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 4 points 2 days ago

I'm amazed prodigy lasted long enough to be distributed on CD.

[–] unreachable 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

i read it as tech-tronic which made it ~10% funnier