Remembering archaic technology...
Back in high school a buddy (foreign exchange student) and I went to an electronics store. My friend asked the sales floor guy there about mini-disc players, and the guy, trying to be helpful, told him not to even bother with mini-disc and to go with an mp3 player instead. This was a few years before the ipod came along, mp3 players were a new thing and what would be considered a cheapo mp3 player today was quite expensive then. My friend argued with the electronics store guys that mini-discs are clearly going to be the successor to the CD and that mp3's will never take off beyond use by pirates (this was even before Napster sold out), and also that mini-discs were better because they never skip. The guy looked at him funny and said, "Mp3's are all digital, there are no moving parts, it would be impossible for them to skip."
They went back and forth for a while. Kind of a funny conversation to reflect back on now. Pfft, mini-disc players...
With the rampant anti-piracy awareness campaigns going on around this time, I once got grounded for having mp3's, apparently my computer was making a lot of noise so my mom went in to check it out, saw a weird program running on the screen, made out the word "mp3" along with artist and song names, noticed a stack of borrowed CD's on top of the CPU, and somehow figured out that I was ripping CD's into mp3's. There went a perfectly good week of my social life. Mp3 almost did used to be a dirty word associated with delinquent youths who stole music. It was almost like I got caught with drugs, I remember my mother in a hurt and disappointed voice saying something like, "I sure hope you wouldn't be okay with going into a store and stealing CD's."