I'm exactly that old.
Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we're all thinking of:
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This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
Wasn't that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.
I had an Optipex from that era too. It was "horizontal" but could also stand vertically. It was the business model.
This one, but beige:
The image is the ~~Precision~~ Dimension model which was the consumer version of it.
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Naw. I'm this fucking old:
Wooo, look at hoity toity FancyPants over here with their screwdriver. All we could afford to fix our cassette tapes was a pencil. And a blunt pencil at that. And it was probably stolen from school!! Screwdrivers indeed!
The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.
When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.
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i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!
RealAudio
oh yeah that piece of crap i haven't missed ^^
There was nothing at all wrong with...
I could hear the pixels...
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.ra files taught me why proprietary is a bad word.
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I'm this old:
Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.
Where are my Kaaza hommies at??
Here!
Kazaa, Kazaa light, WinMX, DC++. I used them all.
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Im Not even 40. Leave me alone.
I'm quite a bit older than this...
Yeah, I was going to bring up Turbo buttons, but then realised that the Commodore Vic 20 in my bedroom predates that by quite some margin 😇
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Remember how when you would burn a CD you couldn't use your computer lest the write buffer dropped too low and the burn world fail?
I remember buying a stack of CDs only to find out they were +R, not -R, and this utterly useless (or something like that, can't specifically recall whether ±R/RW).
I remember this being a DVD thing. By the time I got a dvd burner though mine supported both.
The RW issue with CDs was that a lot of older players couldn’t read them.
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2001, Dre's album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre's new album five bucks right here.
He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.
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I don't even know what you are talking about. I am young, very young. I enjoy rizzing in the toilets and skibiding everyday bro. So fresh. 🤙
pls don't leave me with the boomers...
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I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.
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Damn kids acting like 5-10 years before they were born was the dark ages. Damn.
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Yup, and eventually I got a disk drive with LIGHTSCRIBE and just put the album art on the burned CD. I felt like hot shit.
You fucking were, that's some fancy ass equipment right there.
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I remember my first written CD. You put the CD into a transfer case and slide it into a large box. Shortly after, the empty transfer case comes back out. You have already prepared your CD image, not as a project or file, no, you had to prepare it as an image on its own partition, on a disk that did not host anything else.
Then you shutdown your computer, and reboot it basically into the burn program, which then tries to move the data fast enough from the disk partition to the CD burner. The speed, of course, was 1x, so this write operation could last an hour and a quarter.
Then, your computer reboots back into the OS. You put the empty transfer case into the writer, and after some time, it comes back out with the media. And now you can finally put in into a reader and read it and compare it to the data on that partition. Knock on wood, or whatever. Because about half the writes failed, and the media cost a fortune.
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These people are like 25-30, that’s not old yet I hope
As one of the current generation of adults who grew up with afternoon cartoons, G.I. Joes, transformers and all the greatest movies that are so incredibly nostalgic now, I feel internally like I pretty much stopped developing mentally around age 25 and am still "with it" about much of society, but younger people now seem to think I was around during the civil war.
Reading discussions on even Lemmy between people 20 - 30, referencing how anyone over 40 is in like, an entirely different "category" for literally any topic. Makes me feel like a shriveled mummy sometimes.
It was all pretty funny and silly and I didn't think much of it until I tried getting a new job in my same field recently and it became abruptly clear that I was the oldest person applying for those positions even though I had been doing that work and had that experience for years and years, hiring managers always prioritize younger candidates who are more naive, seem more energetic, and are more desperate to succeed so are more willing to compromise on things like pay and benefits.
It took a year and a half to get a new job and that was only because I knew someone who knew someone. Middle-aged people are basically treated like elderly in many fields and hiring managers will always have a bias towards people younger than themselves or people who look or act more like themselves. This isn't malicious, this is just basic human behavior. This is why we had initiatives to remind people of their biases and reconsider candidates who might not seem to fit the "Standard" you might be unconsciously leaning towards.
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Going from a radio shack trs-80 model 3 to those desktops was great.
Except mine didn't have floppy drives. I only had a cassette player for storage.
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I used to pirate games and store them here when I was a kid to play on my commodore 128
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I started college with a 1.44 MB floppy disk in my pocket and graduated with a 1GB USB stick.
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I'm old enough to remember when computers didn't even require a hard drive, they could just boot right into Basic from ROM.
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