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The short, happy reign of CD-ROM (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Short? What kind of journalism is this?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Well, books lasted much longer.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Once you realize that all this stuff is written by either young Gen Z copywriters or AI, everything begins to make more sense.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

If you group together all the different kinds of floppies as "floppies", but separate out CDs from DVDs and Blu-rays, then I guess it could be seen as short.

CDs probably lasted longest for music, and lasted a while as primary computing media, but if you look at them in terms of console gaming, they lived a pretty short life. So maybe the author is also a console gamer, lol

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 5 months ago

literally was going to start a reply with the same word question. I sorta consider all optical the same though so I don't even see it as over.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 points 5 months ago

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that...