It seems to be a CD tower.

Sometimes I see something with a function so specific but so briefly useful that it makes me wonder what archeologists some centuries from now are gonna guess it was for.

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That is a ritual object, perhaps a shrine. Offerings of cloth and paper may have been hung on the “rungs”, or they may have represented a prayer placeholder like prayer beads. (Discovered in 2572 at the Tell Greenbriar Apartment excavation.)

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it looks like a CD tower (I have something similar) but it really should have a rod running up the “spine” to prevent CD cases from just slipping out the back so I’m inclined to think it’s something else

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they go in the other way, from the pointy side, and the back edges stop them from falling out

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Perhaps there is an… odd perspective? It looks to me like the slats are facing downward if that’s the case and would still dump your CDs on the floor.

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the whole thing is leaning, on unlevel ground, which gives it a weird look I think

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It seems to be a CD tower.

Yeah, make us millennials feel old, why don’t you :chomsky-yes-honey:

(I instantly identified this and I suspect most people my age would too)

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Nah I remember cd towers and this looked like the outer shell of a tower fan

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Yeah I guessed it immediately…

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Giant’s hair comb

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:anti-shinra-action:

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:avalanche: :ecoterrorism:

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:yes-hahaha-yes-r:

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Glas I’m not the only one that thought it looked like an anime sword.

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