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This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

im literally 15, youre acting like CDs are antique vor smth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I still use CDs at work....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I am curious as to what you do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I am not old enough that I was doing this myself but I am old enough that I remember my dad doing it both for himself as well as for me so I could load music onto my mp3 player. My dad had a huge shelf of CDs. Some bought and some burnt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm pinball = arcade games old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My first laptop was on old Dell. Total pile by today standards but it was a nice enough laptop back in the day. I got tons of fun out of it in the form of hours upon hours playing pinball. I miss those times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I mean actual pinball tables.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Record off the radio to cassette and an active market for pirated live shows because we lived past nowhere and it was all we had access to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Was one of them ordered from germany so it didn't have the macrovision circuit in it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No idea, it was the neighbour kid's VCR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Kind of a joke few would get. For a period of time in the late 80's into the early 90's it was very hard to get a german made VCR. Odering them straight from there wasn't really a option. You could only get them at high cost unless you knew someone in the military over there. They would go to the local PX, buy one and ship it home. It was good way to make really good quality copies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

my dad rented movies and did this do we could watch them over and over. og pirate for me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This isn't very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD's and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I'm this old.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, the great beige era. I miss beige computers.

Sort of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I miss clear plastic cases. That was the peak.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Don’t hurt me like this.

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