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1997 Vintage: The Digital Versatile Disc

 Why did we call it DVD? Because “Digital Video Disc” wasn’t fancy enough for 1997, and we needed a name that sounded like it came from the future (even if the boxes were still plastic).

Part of the 35 Miscellaneous Jokes: The 1997 “Unsinkable & Unplugged” Edition archive. Historically Verified

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