"We used to mark them 'summer mix' and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time"

"Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff"

CDeez Nutz Burnin’

CDs nuts!

Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them

I burned a CD just a few days ago.

I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.

All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I'm amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.

I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!

collapsed inline media

Back in my day we burned a lot of CDs…

Maybe it’s finally time to throw out the half finished pack of blank cds away. They’ve been sitting on my bookshelf for 20 years

You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entire disc to be destroyed, and you had to start over

Cds are digital data storage discs that are etched in microscopic 1's and 0's in a microscopic spiral with a laser, and then later read back with lasers. You can only write them once but you can read them a million times. So grammatically, in the same way you "nuke" food in a microwave, you "burn" a cd in a cd drive that is capable of writing cds.

Maybe someday we can have cheap (cheaper than other storage media per gb), durable (last at least my lifetime), terabyte, fast read optical media. I would love to permanently store lots of stuff that doesn't ever need to be rewritten.

Low effort joke

When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.

Tangent

Why aren't Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it's broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.

I'm a school bus driver and I'm not even joking when I say I blew my kids' minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, "Wait you can do that?!"

Made me feel old as hell.

A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldn’t starve to death if they didn’t work overtime.

Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then they’d get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money because—guess what—it wasn’t a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.

Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who's glued to their phone all day.

See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of “head to the doctor, you should get that looked at.” Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?

Edit: finally I can rest in peace (and go to the doctor)

Well of course the first step is to tie an onion to your belt. You can't burn CDs if you're not stylish.

I still burn CD's.

Back in the day here in Finland we ordered bulk of cd/dvd r and rw’s from Åland Islands (autonomous region of Finland). They were cheaper thanks to taxes loophole. I still had 20 pcs of dvd’s from those days and burned them all to save some space on my pc.

There was a downloader called lime wire, it was a simpler time.

I grew up with cassette tapes. I know what the connection is between a cassette and a biro....