It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kstt on 2025-03-11 17:21:03.

Hi all,

I just found a CD-R that I burnt in 2005 on my laptop CD-burner. It was forgotten in an old laptop bag, without any protection, but in the dark. It stores around 300mb of jpeg pictures, and after reviewing them, it seems that data was not corrupt, at least there is nothing visually wrong. The disc surface is moderately scratched. The model printed on the disc is : "Philips CD-R80 / 52X / 700mb". I have no idea what tech this is, I know next to nothing about cd burning, I have burnt a grand total of about 3 discs in my whole life, and apparently lost 2 of them.

That's it, just a datapoint that some of you may find interesting. Data is still ok 20 years later.