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Japan had minidisc kiosks where you would just pop in your blank and buy music that would be saved to it, kinda interesting
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MelGibsonafter4Beers@poa.st
Minidisc, yet another piece of "obselete" media that still somehow manages to look more high-tech / cyberpunk than 99.9 percent of our sterile & boring modern technology.
Truly, the future was then.
Truly, the future was then.
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grizzlywhisker
grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital
Those things were cool as hell, but they came out around the same time as mp3 players so they didn't last. I had a couple friends with minidisc players.
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@grizzlywhisker @MelGibsonafter4Beers they came out way earlier but got another big push around the time of mp3 players iirc
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@grizzlywhisker @MelGibsonafter4Beers they're older than diskmen lmao
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MelGibsonafter4Beers@poa.st
There were some interesting experimental formats being kicked around before the Advent of MP3s / Streaming Services. Laserdisc was one of them.
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grizzlywhisker
grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital
I had never actually seen one in person until shortly before mp3 players in the later 90's. I had a friend with one of those early Sony VAIO computers with a built in mini disc drive. I don't think I ever saw them before like '97 or '98. I was still using zip disks and shit back then.
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@grizzlywhisker @MelGibsonafter4Beers the first commercially sucessful mp3 player launched in 98 apparently, but at least here they seem to have only become popular in the 2000s
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MelGibsonafter4Beers@poa.st
Kind of bizarre that everyone still uses the term "podcast" despite the fact that the iPod went the way of the dodo bird nearly 20 years ago.
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grizzlywhisker
grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital
Yeah I had a good friend whose parents had a laserdisc collection. They actually looked really good on CRT televisions and had the cool frame by frame fast forward and rewind. I have still never seen a CED before, they're like giant 3.5 floppy disks the size of a laserdisc, but I'm curious if they were any good.
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> Tfw we received all the dystopian hell of a "cyberpunk future" without any of the oppressively cool futuristic neon haze w/ Japanese signage aesthetics.
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