This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
1st computer I used was an Apple ][e in first grade. Figured out how to make Spirographs with logo.
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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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8088 era is in da house.
Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?
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Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track
The good old days of getting music from IRC or MP3 download websites found with Altavista.com
Just to play them back with WinPlay3 on a computer that used 100% CPU just to play back a file and dropped audio frames anyway.
Did none of you bitches fucking use tape-recorders?
Oh yes. And it was a big, big upgrade from having to retype everything each time.
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I found this video interesting about how music doesn’t have the same value to Gen Z as it does to Millennials. I remember in high school, what kind music you listened to often determined your friends group. I was a new kid in the 10th grade sitting at a table by myself at lunch wearing a Korn shirt, and my soon to be friends group for my remaining years in high school invited me to their table based on my shirt. Not sure if Gen Z cares about music in the same way, since it has been highly commoditized now, and it seems that digital distribution at least contributed to this situation.
When CDs cost the equivalent of $35 in 2025 money, it was a different relationship indeed.
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Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck
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.
Careful giving out clues to your age on public forums...
But yeah I'm roughly cdr old.
Punk kids. Back in my day we had Tandy and Applesoft BASIC. We had line numbers and it fucking hurt when they took that away with goddamn function declarations.
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I don't come here to be assaulted Pug 😤
Also, just black? lmfao
My computer now is very close to that era of Dell.
I remember my old car stereo that would run mp3 files off of a CD, shit was so tight! Didn't need to transcribe the music as audio tracks so you could fit so much more Linkin Park tracks on a CD than ever before, god those were the days
1996 called: 2X Plextor SCSI-2 wide internal CDR with Caddy, 5 pack Ricoh 2X CDR and an Adaptec single port pci SCSI-2 card bundle for $599. What a deal to store all my porn!
laughs in IRC, magnetic disks, and a 486
Heh. Y'all remember Lincoln Logs in front of the family radio set? 🦗
My first computer ran on 5 1/4" floppy disks.