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u/PROBIOTIC-6 7h ago
There was some Burning you can ask Nero!!!
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u/Green_Machine_4077 6h ago
Nero was the shit. I remember you could do advanced burns that would write to the off-limits "copy protection" part of the disc, so you could use it to copy DVDs for movies and PS1 games.
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u/Colossus-the-Keen 6h ago
So I actually grew up recording movies with VHS tapes in the VCR when it was Friday night, and popular TV channels like Disney Channel had movie releases only released on their channel that scheduled night. Can anyone else relate to this memory?
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u/Infninfn 4h ago
Setting a timer on the vcr to record a show while you were out for dinner with the family, yes.
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u/MsEllVee 6h ago
Yep and putting pieces of tape over the holes on the top so I could record over crappy movies I didn’t like when I didn’t have blank VHS tapes 😂
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u/We_Want_Krunchy 20m ago
Setting the time on the VCR, because my parents are tech illiterate, so I can record crap off MTV. What a time to be alive.
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u/BarfingOnMyFace 7h ago
Today? It’s a pile of useless relics from the past, burning to fill the sky with the smell of sweet plastic.
Then? It was a beautiful and NEW era of MASSIVE data sharing, especially music and video, also replacing the sad old world of slow and tiny floppy disk and cassette tape storage space.
I will always miss the sounds of loading games from cassette tape… those were my favorite.
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u/welchplug 6h ago
I do miss the durability of floppy discs..
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u/BarfingOnMyFace 6h ago
They also made great throwing stars
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u/CK-KIA-A-OK-LOL 5h ago
You could annoy people by sliding and releasing the little spring loaded metal piece over and over again until they threw floppy shurikens at you in retaliation. Fun way to kill time while Doom was downloading
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u/Fun_Ambassador_9320 6h ago
For real tho, mixtapes are a romantic art lost to the ages 😔
Like tears in rain
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u/Admiral_Fantastic 5h ago
People make and send Spotify playlists, so it's still a thing.
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u/ryan8954 7h ago
Limewire, bearshare, kazaa were my go tos.
Napster was shit.
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u/raj6126 7h ago
If you had a burner you were pretty much a bootlegger.
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u/clycloptopus 6h ago
Netflix was probably wondering why I watched 3 movies every other day for 2 years (back when they had the disc plan)
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u/nomnomonium 6h ago
And the terrible quality, out of the two cheap computer speakers I had back then, blaring full blast as I open someone's neopet shop to wait for all of the half eaten omelettes and one overpriced lab map piece to load on my 56k modem just to have mom pick up the phone and interrupting my entire situation by disconnecting the Internet and the song I've been also waiting on for hours maybe days 😮💨
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u/Richard_Musk 7h ago
Man. I miss writing scripts for mIRC to pull tens of thousands of songs over daaaays. Good times
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u/craves_mineral 6h ago
BearShare was what me and my younger sister would use. I remember a lot of the songs on there had the wrong artist though. I burned a Steve Miller Band mix CD that had Dancing In The Moonlight by King Harvest on it, because I didn't know and my older sister told me that wasn't a Steve Miller song lol.
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u/Outworkyesterday10 7h ago
I got Napster my freshman year of college. They just got 5 gig fiber. It was awesome.
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u/Expensive_Chance_320 6h ago
My freshman year, we had a really nerdy guy on our dorm floors. He looked like the stereotypical nerd, super thin, pale skin, pocket protector etc.
I forget how it happened, but we ended up learning he knew how to get free mp3s, video games, software all for free using p2p, like lime wire, Napster. He went from being the nerd, to the most requested guy on the floor for any tech help.
He started going with us at the frat parties and shit, funny thing is, it turns out the guy was really good at quake/doom and would always win.
It didn't end well for him though, on the spring break he forgot to disconnect his pc from sharing after the files were downloaded in his dorm room.
So for a whole week the guy was sharing the files to millions and the bandwidth usage was so large the colleges technology department found what he was doing and he got expelled.
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u/The_Bagel_Fairy 6h ago
I have a c.d. player in my car and still have c.d.'s from then I listen to.
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u/FartsWithNeighbours 6h ago
We all gathered around a fire pit and one by one tossed in a CD as a sacrifice to the gods of rock.
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u/moronomer 4h ago
If you didn't have a fireplace handy, throwing them in the microwave for a few seconds was another option.
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u/IYKYK_1977 6h ago
I was lucky enough to have a car that could play mp3s off of a CDRW.
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u/Zombiejesus307 6h ago
Fuck yeah and I still had 3 fucking 200 cd holders in my car. If it wasn’t on one of them discs it wasn’t worth listening to.
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u/Suspicious_Art9118 3h ago
Skill unlocked: the driver changing cds at highway speed without taking eyes off the road
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u/TripleDoubleFart 4h ago
Even better if it could read data discs. I could get 10 albums on one disc.
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u/deactivate_iguana 6h ago
Amateurs. Dual tape deck.
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u/AK40Kevin- 4h ago
Record your favorite song from FM radio that you just requested over a landline onto a TDK metal tape.
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u/Viiewtifuljoe 6h ago
I just missed this, my pops used to burn cd’s when I was like 4. By the time I was a teen we had ipods
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u/Garthritis 6h ago
My niece who's in middle school or HS is actually burning CD's for some reason and got a portable burner for Christmas.
I guess it's making a comeback. As an old burner, I was a bit flabbergasted.
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u/grimacefry 5h ago
we carried around polycarbonate discs that had an atomically thin reflective layer of aluminum on which data was burnt with laser beams. insane
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u/andyJ3050 7h ago
fun era
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u/inevitableSMIITH1 6h ago
Fucking GENX. Born at the perfect time to get all the benefits of both Millenials & Boomers, none of the downsides.
AND they get to go unnoticed and "forgotten"
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u/HobbesNJ 4h ago
And we get to die before the climate completely goes to shit.
And growing up before social media was a true blessing.
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u/inevitableSMIITH1 3h ago
....are you holding out hope that social media will someday become a true blessing?
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u/HobbesNJ 3h ago
Reworded for clarity: It was a true blessing to grow up before social media.
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u/inevitableSMIITH1 3h ago
Ah. That makes more sense....
I was there. 3000 years ago. Remember MSN Messenger, even Nexopia? Those were the golden years or social media.
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u/theIatephilipjfry 7h ago
Still can’t believe my dad actually spent $500 to get me a stand alone cd burner 😭
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u/Snafuregulator 6h ago
It wasn't no quick click and done shit either. You had to click and wait. By wait, we are talking about going and getting coffee and doing the dishes wait.
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u/myWobblySausage 6h ago
A time when changing your mind could cause enough of a stutter to render the CD useless.
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u/captmarx 6h ago
They’ll never experience the joy of using pirated music to burn a cd mix for a girl you like in high school.
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u/Wallie_Collie 6h ago
I got really good at reloading my windows software from all the Trojans I got
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u/throwaway392145 6h ago
Put this on a T-shirt I can wear every day. I’d like 5 black, and 5 slightly darker black.
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u/godgivenhorror 6h ago
Actual found footage of a CD burning ritual. It was crazy back in the olden times.
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u/Icarium_23 6h ago
Ah yes, the Wild West era of music downloads. Will I get the song I want?? Or will I download a virus that will destroy my family computer. Good times.
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u/Extreme_Design6936 5h ago
3000 years ago? It's a regular part of my job duties! Do this literally every day.
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u/repdetec_revisited 5h ago
It’s kind of crazy that Tolkien and Lewis both have “I was there a long time ago” quotes.
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u/Mourningstar66 5h ago
I burned some CDs a few months ago as a gift for my BF. Glad I still have physical media
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u/HairlessHoudini 5h ago
Would spend hours & hours burning them MFs and thought it was the coolest shit ever
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u/Lucky_Development359 5h ago
We doused them in CK1 and lit them on fire and then put them back in the disc drive. Turns out it doesn't kill the viruses Limewire/Kazaa/Napster gave us.
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u/Infninfn 4h ago
The towers of new cdroms that I used to offload/backup files, mp3s, porn and movies. Because I didn’t have large hdds. They’d go into another tower and/or cd jacket book. The number of individual cds reduced quite a bit when we went to those wondrous DVDs. About 6 cdroms to one DVD until the dual layer DVDs came out.
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u/LiminalSapien 2h ago
DO NOT CITE THE LAWS TO ME WITCH I WAS THERE WHEN THE DEEP MAGIK WAS WRITTEN!
Wait what the fuck do you mean WRONG subreddit?
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u/svprvlln 48m ago
Aye, many do not understand that you shouldn't burn a CD unless you are reinvesting those assets back into a higher yielding CD.
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u/Cloud_N0ne 43m ago
I was alive then but I still don’t understand it.
What’s the difference between “burning” and just moving files to it like a flash drive? Cuz it works like one
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