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Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)

ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Minidiscs absolutely took off, the format was introduced back in 1992, and discontinued in 2013, that is more than two decades.

They were common in Europe and Japan, I sadly never had one during the height of popularity, but got two used ones back in 2014.

Minidisc is probably the most visualy attractive music format I know of, most players and recorders just look fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I very nearly bought one back in the day. Instead I opted for an mp3 player with compact flash storage. I believe I was tired of my cd based walkman's tendency to skip when I was moving so I wanted a smaller, non-moving drive.

Then my dumbass bought one of those compact flash drives with an internal platter harddrive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

My first MP3 player was a Creative Nomad MuVo 64MB, I was one of the first in my school with an MP3 player and since it also was a USB stick I was also one of the first with a USB drive in my school.

But it was nowhere near as sexy as the minidisc recorders and players were