Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)

ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?

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    Minidiscs absolutely took off, the format was introduced back in 1992, and discontinued in 2013, that is more than two decades.

    They were common in Europe and Japan, I sadly never had one during the height of popularity, but got two used ones back in 2014.

    Minidisc is probably the most visualy attractive music format I know of, most players and recorders just look fantastic.

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      I very nearly bought one back in the day. Instead I opted for an mp3 player with compact flash storage. I believe I was tired of my cd based walkman’s tendency to skip when I was moving so I wanted a smaller, non-moving drive.

      Then my dumbass bought one of those compact flash drives with an internal platter harddrive.

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        My first MP3 player was a Creative Nomad MuVo 64MB, I was one of the first in my school with an MP3 player and since it also was a USB stick I was also one of the first with a USB drive in my school.

        But it was nowhere near as sexy as the minidisc recorders and players were