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

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[–] palmtrees2309@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Tech culture is around 10 years late here in India. So I can say I have worked with above tools. But CD Roms are now thing of past. Pen Drives, HDD and SDD are now tool of the game now.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Well... Yes. But I never used limewire because our Internet was so shit it'd take 25 minutes just to load in a Web page entirely made of just text.

[–] melfie@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I found this video interesting about how music doesn’t have the same value to Gen Z as it does to Millennials. I remember in high school, what kind music you listened to often determined your friends group. I was a new kid in the 10th grade sitting at a table by myself at lunch wearing a Korn shirt, and my soon to be friends group for my remaining years in high school invited me to their table based on my shirt. Not sure if Gen Z cares about music in the same way, since it has been highly commoditized now, and it seems that digital distribution at least contributed to this situation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4iFa6E_yY

[–] Odelay42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When CDs cost the equivalent of $35 in 2025 money, it was a different relationship indeed.

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[–] bitPagan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

8088 era is in da house.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had a portable hard drive. I think I still have it somewhere.

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Don't talk about age... My back hurts and I remember booting dos to run win.com if you wanted windows. Most of the stuff ran fine directly from dos without the added shell.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How else was I going to play pirated music in my car?

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[–] Tin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm this old.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

[–] thickertoofan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] AlienContact2049@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I am older even…

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

laughs in IRC, magnetic disks, and a 486

[–] TedDallas@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Lil' bitch, I'm a 16KB expansion cartridge in my Vic-20 years old.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Older sister's emo phase. Mom's Honda Passport. 'I Write Sins' blasting through cheap car stereos. Mandatory trips to the mall. Those were the days.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Heh. Y'all remember Lincoln Logs in front of the family radio set? 🦗

[–] los_chill@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Careful giving out clues to your age on public forums...

But yeah I'm roughly cdr old.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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!

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