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A couple years ago on reddit I saw a post lamenting the death of....the minidisc.
Old portable storage tech sucked. Good riddance is right
Except for music. It is ok to mourn the loss of universal physical media for music.
Only if it's vinyl or CD. The only thing in the pro column for any tape format is the kachunk of the buttons
Not true. Cassettes were super fun to record with, and you can do lots of fun analog production tricks with them.
Mini cds were never common or universial. CDs where. So were cassettes and vinyl. There were a lot of niche formats. 8track got really close to common, I will say they didn't but someon should argue otherwise and you should consider their point.
mini cds are not minidiscs, this is a minidisc
minidisc is a magneto-optical format, cd is just an optical format
Huh I always called the mini CDs minidiscs and was wrong
Minidisc was insanely good technology; the problem was that it was crazy expensive proprietary tech. So almost no one used it, and never really took off.
But I loved mine.
Maybe it is cool but my point is that old storage tech offers no benefits to what we have now. It's not a bad thing when technology is superceded with zero compromise
It offered amazing benefits 30 years ago though. And the current tech you enjoy today was made possible thanks to what was developed years ago.
Sure but we don't live in 30 years ago. The Wright Flyer is a crappy airplane and sticks are crappy weapons, too.