This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
I still do this, minus limewire because it doesn't exist
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
1119 points (97.0% liked)
memes
14893 readers
4353 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- [email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- [email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- [email protected] : Linux themed memes
- [email protected] : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Careful giving out clues to your age on public forums...
But yeah I'm roughly cdr old.
Why must you do this to me. I'm already having a shit day and now you remind me that I was there when CDs replaced floppy. god dammit.
load more comments
(5 replies)
I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.
load more comments
(3 replies)
The good old days of getting music from IRC or MP3 download websites found with Altavista.com
Just to play them back with WinPlay3 on a computer that used 100% CPU just to play back a file and dropped audio frames anyway.
I started college with a 1.44 MB floppy disk in my pocket and graduated with a 1GB USB stick.
load more comments
(2 replies)
My computer now is very close to that era of Dell.
I don't come here to be assaulted Pug 😤
Also, just black? lmfao
If you aren't this old I don't think you can be called old yet
Tell your kids we used to burn cd for entertainment, then proceed to take a torch to the cd.
To be fair I've done that too haha.
I'm old enough to remember when computers didn't even require a hard drive, they could just boot right into Basic from ROM.
Apple IIe - those were the good ol days.
KERNEL OK
whipers ominously
Double decker tape recorders.
I remember feeling like such a badass when I got a CD player that could read MP3 files burned to a disc. I'd have an entire band's discography burned to a single disc and felt like some sort of musical library with my binder full of MP3 CDs.
load more comments
(1 replies)
i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!
RealAudio
oh yeah that piece of crap i haven't missed ^^
There was nothing at all wrong with...
I could hear the pixels...
It was better than WAV; a nice bridge over to MP3.
load more comments
(8 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
I remember getting a ton of mp3 with kazaa which was shut down, replaced by limewire.
Then all my mp3 disappeared from my pentium replaced by a copyright rar file.
I hope they paid for winrar...
Napster was there before Kazaa, it was just a string of services popping up after others got shut down. Good times!
My go to:
Does nobody remember Bearshare?
Lol I forgot all about it till just now! I had an almost out of body trip into memory. Shitty living room, shitty weed, off brand cigarettes, one of those flat screen CRT monstrosities that was top of the line at the time. Downloading what we hoped was family guy 2kb a min. The good ol days.
Oh, aye. Bounced through all those programs.
Learned about computer viruses and protection the hard way.
I'm quite a bit older than this...
Yeah, I was going to bring up Turbo buttons, but then realised that the Commodore Vic 20 in my bedroom predates that by quite some margin 😇
load more comments
(3 replies)
1996 called: 2X Plextor SCSI-2 wide internal CDR with Caddy, 5 pack Ricoh 2X CDR and an Adaptec single port pci SCSI-2 card bundle for $599. What a deal to store all my porn!
Yes
Why are you attacking me?
I'm exactly that old.
Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we're all thinking of:
Wasn't that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.
I had an Optipex from that era too. It was "horizontal" but could also stand vertically. It was the business model.
This one, but beige:
The image is the ~~Precision~~ Dimension model which was the consumer version of it.
We use to flip the light gray flap all shift in computer lab in middle school. When we got bored with that, we figured out how to pop out the Dell logo and flip it upside down
load more comments
(1 replies)
You’re real close to the “capacitor of death” models there. GX270s failed like a motherfucker.
We could swap those boards out and in like a fucking NASCAR pit crew.
Between the capacitor plague and the tin whiskers from the phaseout of lead, hardware from that era failed constantly.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I think we had that one.
That or the ol' tan cased dinosaurs.
The gray Dell helped me through many-a "100 Games!" disc...
load more comments
(3 replies)