you had a tiny needle and a little hammer, and you would look through a jeweler's loupe to see where to carve in the 1s and the 0s. It was a golden age.
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Yeah I'm not gonna lie this is me. I've burned iso's to CDs before but I really not get it. The cds I had could only be burned once and then got write protected and I didn't know how to undo to. I'm just gonna stick with my flash drives
Flash drives are definitely better than burning ISOs to disc, but don't forget that we had CD-RW discs that allowed multiple burns.
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it is a lost art now, I still have an unopened box of DVDs... Somewhere.
I have very fond memories setting up the candle and tuning the laser prism just right, following Razor 1911 instructions to set everything up correctly. While trying not to burn a hole in the walls of the house.
That box of dvds is your 99 potions left after beating the game
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One year my school had a 3.5 inch floppy disk as part of the school supplies we were supposed to get. Mine was orange and you can tell a kid not to use it as a fidget toy, but they're absolutely gonna use it as a fidget toy. I don't think a single disk survived that year.
I also remember when my school got a fancy new "computer lab" that had all the colorful iMacs. There were still a few of the beige machines that read off of 7 inch floppies kicking around also.
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I used to rip and burn CDs all the time when I was a teenager, and in truth.... I dont know.
It’s in the name. You just use a match.
I tried that when I was 4 or so. When they said they're burning it, I wanted to try it too.
Gotta make sure it's an RW so you can change up your music every so often!
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This is fake because "burning" is a CD specific term, and no real Gen Z would know that you "burn" a CD to put music on it.
Most would probably just assume it works like a USB stick or any regular digital storage format.
It's like how a hilariously large amount of people don't know what the origin of "mixtape" is. They think its just a word that defines music mixes, because no one knows what a cassette player is anymore, or that people actually used to create and sell mixtapes.
Fuck, some of the younger rappers actually put out mixtape cassettes now. There's a fairly brisk but low demand market for not only used tapes, but there's bands releasing them im special editions.
I'm kinda regretting dumping some of my old tapes. I kept the stuff that's impossible to replace (local bands mostly), but I sometimes get nostalgic for the liners. Not the sound being shitty, or how fast tapes wear out, or anything else about the format, but there was something coool about the way the liners unfolded that isn't as satisfying with CDs, or even vinyl.
I'm in a band and we make cassette tapes. They sell like hot cakes. Our last run sold out in a single day on bandcamp. Many people buy them and don't even have cassette players. They're cheap to make and I think many people just want a cool souvenir.
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alyssa, @tamaranians
Maybe its just the generation z in me but how did people burn CDs? Like how did you just get a blank CD and put songs on it?
Friendly Fat Hottie, @TeriAmour
There are people alive that don't know how to burn CDs. I'm fucking old.
Have never burned CDs, but I assume I would take our CD player (which i'm pretty sure has a burning mode), plug it in to my computer, and look up "how to burn CDs"
You need a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW drive in your computer, or externally to write to any of those formats. A DVD-RW can write, or burn (because the laser is literally burning the information onto the disk) to all four formats of disk.
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I don't know how film is developed and nobody ever made fun of me for not knowing.
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