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During 1998-2000, AOL was ordering so many free trial CDs that it locked up world production, and music CDs faced 8-12 week delays. It was rumored that certain
by mchannon 10mo ago
During 1998-2000, AOL was ordering so many free trial CDs that it locked up world production, and music CDs faced 8-12 week delays. It was rumored that certain weeks there were no albums getting fabricated at all, worldwide.
I wonder if history isn’t repeating itself. AOL CDs had pretty much jumped the shark by 2000.
- PeaceTed 10mo agoAll that manufacturing demand led to enough free machinery to get those free Ubunutu CD's! ;)
- cmckn 10mo agoMan, I loved those. A Kubuntu CD felt like such a treat to 10 year old me.
- jazzyjackson 10mo agoThat's somehow unsurprising given how many AOL CDs I saw at checkout of every grocery store
- dredmorbius 10mo agoStacks of them at a local post office back in the day. Covering every horizontal surface.