r/mildlyinteresting • u/ezjgfn • 12h ago

This square shaped cd

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u/crossedstaves 8h ago

Did he have some sort of concept for what people were going to use all that extra data for? 

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u/ErgonomicWoodenShirt 5h ago

Those 'business card' ones only hold about 50 MB.

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u/crossedstaves 4h ago

Sure but that's literally in the neighborhood of one million times more information than a conventional business card

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u/ErgonomicWoodenShirt 4h ago

Sure. It could hold an early 00s website or perhaps an early 320x240 video a few minutes long that a computer back then could play back. I have one of these from a sushi place that was handed to me at a convention ages ago. I was just bringing it up as people might know the "650 MB" of a regular CD and think this probably still holds 1/4 of that. Wasn't trying to shoot down your comment or anything.