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   snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:58:45 JST snacks
   Japan had minidisc kiosks where you would just pop in your blank and buy music that would be saved to it, kinda interesting
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:58:44 JST snacks

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     Alsp for some reason makes them feel even more futuristic
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 18:59:44 JST snacks

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     Sounds like something from a cyberpunk story
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 19:02:16 JST snacks

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     Some of the stationary players had ps/2 ports so you could edit and name stuff with keyboard
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 17:46:37 JST snacks

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     @grizzlywhisker @MelGibsonafter4Beers they're older than diskmen lmao
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 17:46:38 JST snacks

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     @grizzlywhisker @MelGibsonafter4Beers they came out way earlier but got another big push around the time of mp3 players iirc
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 17:46:39 JST grizzlywhisker

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     Those things were cool as hell, but they came out around the same time as mp3 players so they didn't last. I had a couple friends with minidisc players.
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     Autism is a Choice :verified: :njp: (melgibsonafter4beers@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 17:46:40 JST Autism is a Choice :verified: :njp:

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     Minidisc, yet another piece of "obselete" media that still somehow manages to look more high-tech / cyberpunk than 99.9 percent of our sterile & boring modern technology.
     
     Truly, the future was then.
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 17:49:28 JST snacks

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     • grizzlywhisker
     @grizzlywhisker @MelGibsonafter4Beers the first commercially sucessful mp3 player launched in 98 apparently, but at least here they seem to have only become popular in the 2000s
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     grizzlywhisker (grizzlywhisker@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 17:49:29 JST grizzlywhisker

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     I had never actually seen one in person until shortly before mp3 players in the later 90's. I had a friend with one of those early Sony VAIO computers with a built in mini disc drive. I don't think I ever saw them before like '97 or '98. I was still using zip disks and shit back then.
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