I think you mean ‘country’. I grew up in Italy. I started using them in 1998 or thereabouts. I was the first one amongst my social circle who adopted them, and

I think you mean ‘country’. I grew up in Italy. I started using them in 1998 or thereabouts. I was the first one amongst my social circle who adopted them, and a couple (literally two) of friends followed suit. Everybody else was stuck with CDs and CD-Rs. They seem to have appreciated the MiniDisc’s advantages but regarded it as something not quite of our time, some kind of science fiction thing that you saw in movies but couldn’t actually buy or own. I used mine until about 2003 or thereabouts when I got a 3rd generation iPod.