I learned on the radio this morning that back in the early 90s, CDs were actually known as "laser discs." Interesting. Thank you once again, cursorily-informed college radio guy, for prompting me to exclaim "reeeally?" to myself, out loud, in my car. I'll give him credit for having heard of the term "laserdisc," but I'm guessing he's never actually seen one in person.
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Wasn't that confusing with the whole "laser disc film phase" that lasted a whole, like, 2 weeks? I think you got some faulty pop-culture info there. Damn you, ill-informed disc jockeys!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc
p.s. i re-read my comment & it sounds a little bitchy. didn't mean it to. the only reason i know is a buddy bought me "so i married an axe murderer?" on laser disc in 7th grade or so. he didn't know my family, nor any family in a 600 mile radius, owned a laser disc player. better than a gun rack, i guess.
For the record, in case it's not clear, I do know what a Laserdisc is/was :)
The only time I've ever actually seen one in use was in school, as there apparently was an almost-significant market for educational Laserdisc programming (I guess publishers were excited about the new idea of "chapters" in a video medium).
I kind of want to find some old discs on eBay and use them as serving platters.