Microblog Memes

5324 readers

2594 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

1526

You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

361 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't 1 company that dominated ,many had mp3 players out. Some of the bigger name brand ones would have been the likes of Sony (after they gave up on the mini disk) and Creative, but there were many others in the early 2000's.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I fully accept that there were others, but they were not superfluous(not sure if that is the correct word to use but it feels right)

I guess maybe the point was trying to make is that for portable music the cd player was hands down still the best thing until the ipod took over.

Much like the (and credit to Sony here) walkman before it, the discman is still the device that people used for digital music, specifically mp3s, until the ipod came out.

So yeah im saying it took 1 company, apple in this case, to kill the cd. Not because other people werent in the fight, but because of itunes and apples ease of use development