It is funny how we've come to treat our CDs differently. I know a guy who at any given time has about a dozen rather scratched CDs sitting next to his computer. I think he throws his jewel cases out or something.
Cheerios cereal once put CDs right in the box and as you mentioned, they are given out in newspapers/the mail. I once used an AOL CD as a frisbee but it broke when it hit a brick wall. Back when I still dressed up for Halloween, I was once a hardcore computer nerd and made a necklace out of CDs (and a belt out of 5.25" floppies).
However, I still get like we all did when we first discovered CDs sometimes. I bought a CD last week (Bing Crosby Christmas Collection, to be specific) and when I took it out of its jewel case for the first time, I treated it like it was 24k gold. It went ever so gently into the drive and came out in the same manner. The same thing happened the next time I listened to it. No idea how long this will last, but as of now it's one of the few CDs I have without fingerprints on it.
That System 7 one looks like it was treated like gold. Must have been the previous owner's first CD-ROM or something...the first one I used, for the record, was Grolier's Encyclopedia (which I still refer to for history sometimes even if it is a 1995).
Cheerios cereal once put CDs right in the box and as you mentioned, they are given out in newspapers/the mail. I once used an AOL CD as a frisbee but it broke when it hit a brick wall. Back when I still dressed up for Halloween, I was once a hardcore computer nerd and made a necklace out of CDs (and a belt out of 5.25" floppies).
However, I still get like we all did when we first discovered CDs sometimes. I bought a CD last week (Bing Crosby Christmas Collection, to be specific) and when I took it out of its jewel case for the first time, I treated it like it was 24k gold. It went ever so gently into the drive and came out in the same manner. The same thing happened the next time I listened to it. No idea how long this will last, but as of now it's one of the few CDs I have without fingerprints on it.
That System 7 one looks like it was treated like gold. Must have been the previous owner's first CD-ROM or something...the first one I used, for the record, was Grolier's Encyclopedia (which I still refer to for history sometimes even if it is a 1995).