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.
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 😭
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Jun 15:35
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the rest of us threw them in the trash, and it was the same result.
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There’s a burial spot somewhere for old game cartridges too, right?
ET, and I think someone dug those up semi-recently.
Edit: Yep: nbcnews.com/…/those-old-e-t-atari-games-dug-deser…
$108k for those! With all the workers and equipment, I wonder if they profited. What a wild treasure hunt.
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.
Why the fuck did I never think of this—I was out there buying floppies like an absolute rube
That’s how Big Floppy has tricked us into buying more floppies.
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I’m amazed prodigy lasted long enough to be distributed on CD.
i read it as tech-tronic which made it ~10% funnier
At least somebody had a good use for them <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/68c49d32-0972-4279-8bd4-4885e71f84b7.jpeg">
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 😭
the rest of us threw them in the trash, and it was the same result.