Back in October 2015 Vice Media located a few of the most dedicated collectors of those AOL giveaway CDs from the Internet’s dial-up years.

Is there anything people won’t collect?
Sparky Haufle wrote a definitive AOL-CD collector’s guide; Lydia Sloan Cline has 4,000 unique disks; Bustam Halim at one point had 20,000 total, before weeding to 3,000. The AOL connoisseurs file disks by colour, by the hundreds of different packaging styles, by number of free hours, and especially by the co-brands — the rare pearls, like AOL’s deals with Frisbee and Spider Man. Their collections, said both Halim and Brian Larkin, are simply “beautiful”.
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