loaded it on an ipod or zune or some other MP3 player. During those days you still owned and ripped your CDs, and spent hours converting your CDs to strictly digital files (and illegally downloading content on napster and all the follow up illegal hosting sites). Then streaming slowly came in, first with itunes. But itunes wasn't a whole lot different. It wasn't a subscription service at first. You still bought each individual song or album in the early days. You just didn't ever get a physical media copy. Then subscription streaming and ad-based free streaming came along and finally killed physical media off for good.

With Video, we went straight from physical DVDs to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video and TV streaming. It was much more abrupt.

Also, I was so mad when my wife got rid of all my CDs. She donated them to a local youth organization who was doing a big yard sale. I had cases and cases of CDs, and I viewed my music as being lost forever. I couldn't imagine what the world would turn into where I have every song basically ever created on Spotify at the tips of my fingers in seconds for a few bucks a month. It's crazy. I probably spent more in a year or two on physical CDs back in the day than I'll ever spend total on my Spotify subscription for the rest of my life.