[mchannon]

During 1998-2000, AOL was ordering so many free trial CDs that it locked up world production, and music CDs faced 8-12 week delays. It was rumored that certain weeks there were no albums getting fabricated at all, worldwide.

I wonder if history isn’t repeating itself. AOL CDs had pretty much jumped the shark by 2000.

[PeaceTed]

All that manufacturing demand led to enough free machinery to get those free Ubunutu CD's! ;)

[cmckn]

Man, I loved those. A Kubuntu CD felt like such a treat to 10 year old me.

[jazzyjackson]

That's somehow unsurprising given how many AOL CDs I saw at checkout of every grocery store

[dredmorbius]

Stacks of them at a local post office back in the day. Covering every horizontal surface.