And somewhere Joan Rivers has a sad.
What was frustrating last time I had to get a PC was that around half of the types available to buy at stores had a DVD/CD player. But none of those had a large hard drive. You’d think that the manufacturers that made a CD drive a feature would also assume that people who buy them want to use the PC to store media on and thus use a large hard drive.
The largest hard drive I could find in a PC that had a DVD drive was 256G, and I just looked now and I am using 300G so I would have already run out of space.
So I too got a PC with a large hard drive and had to buy an external DVD player.
This and long-distance calling cards and other services like 10-10-220. Since I was a new driver and a young adult at the time of its popularity, and I think where I lived some nearby new area codes were long distance, being able to call my parents without a pocket full of quarters was the most important thing in my life. They had very popular commercials with famous people (Christopher Lloyd! ALF!) and everybody knew about it and used it.
Then cell phones came around and there was no longer a need for them.
Hare Krishna folks in airports, handing out flowers and pamphlets, wishing peace and goodwill to everybody.