There is now no need to ever purchase a piece of music again. But for an affordable monthly price, you can rent everything!
I wish I had all the money back that I spent on CDs and DVDs over the years, not to mention cassettes and vinyl LPs. Now when I want to listen to something, I just stream it on Apple Music regardless of whether I own it or not. All that physical media is sitting in cardboard boxes somewhere.
Recently I came across a set of National Geographic CDs that I bought back in the 1990s. It was 100 years of the National Geographic on CD. I remember convincing my wife to buy it because our children, who were still young at the time, would have an excellent state-of-the-art reference library at their fingertips. But really, I wanted it for myself as well. But it was so cumbersome to use because the software kept telling you to "insert Disc 42" or "insert Disc 27." Can't believe I spent hundreds of dollars on it.
I also purchased the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Microsoft Encarta on CD. How dumb was that? My kids never used it once. They grew up on the web and Wikipedia. They laugh when they come across my collection of "compact discs".
“...National Geographic CDs that I bought back in the 1990s.”
Same here. I’ve often thought about digging them and others out and copying them, if that’s possible, to a hard drive.
Any thoughts?
I think I would keep HyperCard because it was the first commercial implementation of hyperlinks and lead to Tim Berners-Lee use of hyperlinks for what would evolve into the World Wide Web now called the Internet. I agree about dropping the Lisa, but Slide number 10 subsumes iTunes into the App Stores, as it has always been the "Apple iTunes Store" with departments that sell music, Apps, eBooks, etc. . . . so in a way, it is there.
I too bought that National Geographic CD set. . . and, like you, the Encyclopedia Britannica CD set and the MS Encarta. . . ostensibly for my two daughters, but mostly for me. Apple included the World Book with its new Macs for a number of years. I bought the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language as well. From the sublime, I went to the totally ridiculous also, as I also bought the Complete Mad Magazine set. LOL! To avoid the "insert disk X" problem, I bought an another HD and installed all of those in a separate dedicated reference partition. Solved that problem.
Somewhere around my house I have a 12 inch LASERDISC version of the Encyclopedia Britannica complete on a single disc. It was experimental and required a high-end Laserdisc player to use, which I still have but haven't turned on in probably ten years. I bought out a video store's entire rental laserdisc inventory of over 2000 discs for $1 each when they closed them out. The owner had received the Encyclopedia from a distributor as a gift. I creamed the inventory for my collection and sold the rest on eBay. Made about five-six times my investment in a short time. . . but I kept that encyclopedia disc.