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This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Older sister's emo phase. Mom's Honda Passport. 'I Write Sins' blasting through cheap car stereos. Mandatory trips to the mall. Those were the days.

[–] TedDallas@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lil' bitch, I'm a 16KB expansion cartridge in my Vic-20 years old.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.

[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hell, my daughter used limewire.

[–] unabart@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How did the Sharpie get dragged into this? I still need to use one of those for work.

Anyway, i fit the description. Win.com, Soundblaster IRQ, Audiogalaxy, BBS, etc. It seemed like it was more fun back then. Marketing ruined everything. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I remember lightscribe and thinking it was going to replace my need for sharpies but it was just a gimmick and while cool not very useful given the cost of disks

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Barely but yeah

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

bruh 💀 my grandpa had me burning CDs for him forever

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Record off the radio to cassette and an active market for pirated live shows because we lived past nowhere and it was all we had access to.

[–] gerowen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I made one the other day, though I bought the music from HDTracks instead of "acquiring" it from Limewire or Kazaa. Burned it to a CD because the bus I drive has a CD player but no SD card slot or anything.

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[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ouch. I'm used to "do you feel old" posts being relatable, but the black theme on the computer tower and the 700mb disc hurt me. I remember feeling sci-fi as fuck when I finally got rid of my old off-white/beige tower for a black tower, and scoffing at the idea of removable media holding more than a few mb of data.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't think I was old until this post... I'm like the youngest millennial you could be.

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[–] petaqui@lemmings.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, lime... Those times

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Back then we had LightScribe

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[–] Kazaxat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's listing these as one item, not four. Use LimeWire to download the songs on the PC, burn it to a CD, then label it with the Sharpie.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you aren't this old I don't think you can be called old yet

[–] Redecco@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

People that age will see this and say "hell yeah"

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
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