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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I was disappointed when they moved from floppies to CDs. The floppies you could reformat and reuse for whatever you wanted. The CDs were just coasters.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

My grandma hung them up outside to... do something, I don't really remember, keep squirrels away from birdfeeders maybe, something like that.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The cds were fun if you put them in your microwave

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And frisbees

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

But what am I supposed to do for the other 25 hours?

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My half-brother is 20 and I was telling him that at my first IT job how I had to go around to every computer with a CD to install Office. His response, "oh, is that what CDs were for?"