This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
Lil' bitch, I'm a 16KB expansion cartridge in my Vic-20 years old.
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This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.
This is a direct attack. Defederate this motherfucker!
Ouch. I'm used to "do you feel old" posts being relatable, but the black theme on the computer tower and the 700mb disc hurt me. I remember feeling sci-fi as fuck when I finally got rid of my old off-white/beige tower for a black tower, and scoffing at the idea of removable media holding more than a few mb of data.
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We still have Sharpie.
I think it's listing these as one item, not four. Use LimeWire to download the songs on the PC, burn it to a CD, then label it with the Sharpie.
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Hell, my daughter used limewire.
bruh 💀 my grandpa had me burning CDs for him forever
If you aren't this old I don't think you can be called old yet
I made one the other day, though I bought the music from HDTracks instead of "acquiring" it from Limewire or Kazaa. Burned it to a CD because the bus I drive has a CD player but no SD card slot or anything.
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Wow, lime... Those times
How did the Sharpie get dragged into this? I still need to use one of those for work.
Anyway, i fit the description. Win.com, Soundblaster IRQ, Audiogalaxy, BBS, etc. It seemed like it was more fun back then. Marketing ruined everything. 🤷♂️
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Barely but yeah
I remember lightscribe and thinking it was going to replace my need for sharpies but it was just a gimmick and while cool not very useful given the cost of disks
I didn't think I was old until this post... I'm like the youngest millennial you could be.
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