Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage

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.

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

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