First time you heard or used the word COASTER in context

[888888]

When is the first time you heard or used the word COASTER to refer to useless optical media? My first time was way back in probably 1997. I was reading a GamePro magazine and they said something like this:

Take a Nintendo 64 cartridge and rub it with sandpaper and you have a rough cartridge. Do the same to a playstation disc and you have a $50 drink coaster.

I am actually surprised how well I remember that. Damn, GamePro was a shitty magazine. Probably still is.

Since, I only got a CD burner in the 2000s, my usage of the word must have been confined to crappy music CDs and AOL discs for some time. Nowadays, I really do use failed CD-Rs as coasters. I have them all over, for my thermo tea mug and cold glasses. They are mostly KHypermedia 8x. Only one failed DVD-R and I don't feel like using it as a coaster yet (need time to mourn).

[Guest]

I saw it in a 1906 Sears& Robuck" ad. What ever happened to Robuck?

[888888]

I saw it in a 1906 Sears& Robuck" ad. What ever happened to Robuck?

Referring to a CD or DVD?

[Rookie64]

early 1996...in reference to useless CD games and software that came in bundle pack.
Started hearing more often in the late 90s sometime...whenever AOL first started sending out CDs ( I'm guessing 1997 or early '98 )

[andyp1]

I remember it from the 80s when we were repairing the ealier cd players. If we found a crappy cd in one we would use it to stick our cuppa's on.

[Rookie64]

I remember it from the 80s when we were repairing the ealier cd players. If we found a crappy cd in one we would use it to stick our cuppa's on.

Come to think of it, I remember hearing it first on the radio in the late '80s.
The CD they were playing screwed up in the middle of the song...and the DJ said something like I guess we shouldn't have been using that as a coaster and to play frisby.

[flaninacupboard]

was using AOL cds as a drinks coaster back in 97 or 98. think i first applied it to cd-rs when i hit good old vcdhelp.com with my first ever project, burned on a friends machine. (a coaster of course) was that really three years ago? wow, i've bought so much hardware since then! cd burner, dvd burner, ADVC-50, whole new system (from athlon 650 to athlon 2600) analogue capture card, two laserdisc players, widescreen TV, cd player, gamecube, countless spindles of discs....
the list just goes on.....