Buy it, use it, break it, fix it
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it
View it, code it, jam - unlock it
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it
Turn it, leave it, start - format it
We used fucking LASERS
Burned. Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
Nero Burning Rom
eI didn’t catch that joke for decades.
I catch that joke now. I’m over 40.
Just now got that it was even a joke.
I mean it’s icon was the colosseum on fire…
Not only we burned CDs, we also RIPPED them
You should not be speaking of this!!
the sheriff’s secret police will be along shortly for OP with tickets for a free mandatory vacation to the sheriff’s secret luxury reeducation center and spa. speaking about the sheriff’s secret luxury reeducation center and spa is forbidden.
“Rip. Mix. Burn.”
Instead of the sound of a chainsaw, it’s the sound of a 70x drive on the verge of exploding
Didn’t forget DVD Toasters
Disk rot is real, we must teach the young how to care for the relics.
I hate it.
I’ve always felt that, as children start to come of age, they should be given their own lifelong raid nas to store things efficiently. Like as an 18th birthday coming of age, “it is time you became an adult…” Then that kid won’t have to rely on shitty cloud corpo dark pattern shenanigans.
“No, that’s my pc’s retractable drink holder.”
Also texting existed but was like 10c per text and would easily rack up huge phone bill charges. We used IM programs on the computer instead. No one relied on their cell phones to actually communicate outside of an emergency because they sucked and were expensive.
That’s old magic, all but lost to the ages. It was practiced by ancient religions like Napster and LimeWire, but they are all gone now.
Best to let it rest. There is no advantage to dredging up all those old superstitions now.
Lost my ass. I still have external burners. DVD-Rs are cheap. Makes for a decent way to play my old Xbox and PS-PS2 games.
Also, yarr.
Me matey!
nobody tell them about how we recorded songs from the radio and made mix tapes
Meh, songs. We recorded computer programs from the radio!
You toss a bunch of tapes in a bucket and mix 'em together, then bring them the bucket. Simple.
kids today will never know the hassle of burning a cd of mp3s and then recording the cd onto a cassette tape to play in the car. in real time. and if you bump the desk or otherwise jostle the cd player, you’ll get a nice skip on your tape
Or burning a data cd of mp3s not realizing that your player will only play audio cds.
lol flashbacks
better hope it was a “re-writable” cdr
That usually only happened once. Was kinda sad that my radio couldn’t play the 100+ songs, but at least the computer still could and I needed the free space.
gotta get the adapter for your disc man that plugged into the car cassette deck
Most kids back then probably didn’t either, because they would’ve hooked the tape recorder up to the line out port on their computer if they wanted to do that.
My friend, no one had a laptop in the 90s. They didn’t become cheap enough for that until the early 2000s.
My uncle used to work for Microsoft back in the day and so he had one of the earliest commercial laptops. I think the laptop weighed more than he did.
It had the worst screen in the world it had a viewing angle of about 4° but everyone wanted to see it.
I didn’t say laptop, I said “computer.” You dragged the entire desktop PC, including the 50 lb CRT monitor, across the house to the hi-fi system (or vice-versa), and you liked it!
(Edit: you do realize I’m talking about using the computer to record to a cassette tape and then playing the tape in the car, not hooking a laptop up directly to your car stereo, right?)
Across the house? I used to put mine on a wagon and drag it across town for lan parties. Lots of blankets to minimize bouncing and it was fine.
I had the little CD to cassette tape adapter, I also drove around with a laptop in the passenger seat plugged into the aux port, which quickly turned into a cheap mp3 player.
I was an early adopter of the portable “MP3-CD” player (and a late adopter of the portable CD player in general, because that’s the first I ever owned). That, the radio, and commercially-bought cassettes were the only ways I played music in my car as a teenager.
The point is, though, I was responding to the previous comment about “the hassle of burning a cd of mp3s and then recording the cd onto a cassette tape.” I know there were other ways to do it, but I wasn’t discussing them.
Does no one remember LAN parties!?
I remember burning some warez on a CD-R, getting a clean burn after 20min, and grabing a ballpoint pen to write the name of the warez on the disk…
Sad times…
I recently found perfectly working HP external disc burner while dumpster diving electronics bin at work and I have uncovered ancient ways of witchcraft again that I have once known but forgotten. This stuff costs like 50€ in stores now and I found it again for free. Nice. Burned the CDRW disc I still had in drawer for test if it works fine and the process hit me with so much nostalgia lol
I got one too. Its a combo of drive and rca inputs for burning camcorder or VCR to dvd
They mean GenX? Probably both. Maybe a Xennial thing if I have my terminology right.
Throw the phrase “making coasters” at this guy and see what happens.
I am sad he doesn’t know what an optical disc burner is, since they’re being sold and used through to this year.
They are sold, but no one is using it. Like, my PC hasn’t had optical drive for like a decade now if not more, my oldest laptop still has one, 2 newer ones didn’t come with one at all. My car has CD player still, but I 3D printed a phone holder and jammed it in there and my phone is playing music via BT adapter and into AUX. And even before this, I bought the car specifically with USB port that plays MP3’s and I’ve not listened to it that way for years now. But it’s there. Can’t imagine listening to CD’s in a car these days…
