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.
There’s a burial spot somewhere for old game cartridges too, right?
ET, and I think someone dug those up semi-recently.
Edit: Yep: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/those-old-e-t-atari-games-dug-desert-sold-108-n418971
$108k for those! With all the workers and equipment, I wonder if they profited. What a wild treasure hunt.
At least somebody had a good use for them
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.
I’m amazed prodigy lasted long enough to be distributed on CD.
Prodigy
i read it as tech-tronic which made it ~10% funnier
AOL floppies made good coasters
