From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   > In comp.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >> Further to that, 34 years ago puts their start in 1991, before CD-ROM   
   >> drives became popular in PCs. I think they were giving out floppy disks   
   >> for those first few years.   
   >>   
   >> Anybody remember seeing an AOL floppy?   
   >   
   > Definitely. Better than CDs because you could just wipe and reuse them.   
   >   
   > https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1395721   
      
   Which I did for many an AOL 3.5" floppy.  Not for anything valuable,   
   but for a "copy file X from computer Y to computer Z" use they worked   
   just fine.   
      
   The CDROM's were only useful to either join AOL (which was never going   
   to happen) or to make garden scarecrows.   
      
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