> I don't even think I've seen a single on here in Russia in the 90s.

I'm not surprised, considering they were expensive. That doesn't mean they weren't popular in the west.

CDs where not cheap either, mind you. Yet CDs replaced cassettes rather quickly.

	▲	cyanydeez 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They were like a 3-4 year fad while also CD burners were coming online so they did not really provide a significant storage medium because if you wanted large sizes, you typically just needed readonly CDs. Needing large and Read-Write was the niche than CD-R and CD-RW did much better. Along with CDs in general, they just didn't do much more than span a small temporal gap in value proposition. T