means A digital versatile disc—a 4.7GB optical storage format that held movies, games, and data from 1997 until streaming made it the Betamax of the 2010s.

from Born in 1996 from an unlikely alliance between Sony, Philips, Toshiba, and Panasonic (who abandoned their competing formats to avoid another format war bloodbath), it launched commercially in 1997 as the successor to VHS—faster, smaller, sharper, and finally letting you skip the FBI warnings.