• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    It’s amazing to see optical media dying out to such a high degree. I was so excited when we got a CD-ROM drive in our home computer, when I was a kid. It opened up a lot of options for new games. Now, I have a collection of games on CD/DVD in a box, in the basement, which hasn’t been opened in a decade, maybe two.

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      18 hours ago

      Yes, when CD and later DVD came out, they were truly groundbreaking. A huge step forward compared to anything that went before.
      Both in music/video and as a computer storage media. That kind of exciting progress is rare in any field. I think the only equivalent with broad impact since then is the smartphone.