This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
Hell, my daughter used limewire.
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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. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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We still have Sharpie.
Back then we had LightScribe
I haven't thought about that in so long lol. I got a hand me down laptop that had that tech in it and the special light scribe blank CD, I wanted to try it out but I never could decide what I wanted to print with it and so I never did
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bruh ๐ my grandpa had me burning CDs for him forever
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.
I remember thinking... The average mp3 is like 3-5 MB... thats damn near 200 songs. I miss burning CDs. Coming up with a hot mix made you feel like a fly ass DJ. now there's like 6000 songs in my library and some days I don't seem to like any of lol
You'll never guys what I'm currently doing....
Downloading 128kbit mp3 and then converting them to wav and burn on CD. It's all same same right ๐?
I can still sorta remember as a kid, sitting down at a chunky old Dell PC running Windows XP, while my dad inserted a CD for some Go Diago go computer game.
We still have that old computer. We tried to throw Linux on it to see if we could use it for something but I think it's truly beyond saving.