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

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago

Why are you attacking me?

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 4 days ago

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Tell your kids we used to burn cd for entertainment, then proceed to take a torch to the cd.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

To be fair I've done that too haha.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I actually remember albums. They were these physical discs that actually existed within our 3D world. Made entirely of vinyl, they played on a modular device designed entirely for their use and their use alone. In comparison, they were close to the same thickness, but considerably larger than even the ancient CD-ROMs were!

And they sounded SOOOOO much better than anything you’ve ever heard.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I still do this, minus limewire because it doesn't exist

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Where are the speakers, that warned you about incoming calls?

[–] SuperApples@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.

The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had so many burned CDs with games and music... This was back when ADSL internet was the hot new thing with incredible download speeds of 30kb/s

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

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EVEN OLDER!

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I remember doing that...

last year (besides limewire, I needed some CDs to copy to minidiscs)

[–] keegomatic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Don’t hurt me like this.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had a portable hard drive. I think I still have it somewhere.

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[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How else was I going to play pirated music in my car?

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[–] bitPagan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

8088 era is in da house.

[–] palmtrees2309@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Tech culture is around 10 years late here in India. So I can say I have worked with above tools. But CD Roms are now thing of past. Pen Drives, HDD and SDD are now tool of the game now.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?

Don't you know? Kids these days only know something twerk something eat hot chips something be bisexual etc..

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

Don't talk about age... My back hurts and I remember booting dos to run win.com if you wanted windows. Most of the stuff ran fine directly from dos without the added shell.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Laughs in IRC.

Giggles in BBS.

Two day downloads because kermit was the only download protocol that working with the endpoint due to noise in the connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol)

What was a I downloading? A bmp of a topless Samantha Fox.

Edit: I decided to take stroll down memory lane and have discovered that there were two Samantha foxes one was in pornos and the one I'm remembering was a page three girl in the UK. The page I found had them as the same person even though they look nothing alike.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 5 points 5 days ago

collapsed inline media

1st computer I used was an Apple ][e in first grade. Figured out how to make Spirographs with logo.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Well... Yes. But I never used limewire because our Internet was so shit it'd take 25 minutes just to load in a Web page entirely made of just text.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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