This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
laughs in IRC, magnetic disks, and a 486
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This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.
I don't come here to be assaulted Pug 😤
Also, just black? lmfao
My first computer ran on 5 1/4" floppy disks.
If you aren't this old I don't think you can be called old yet
I'm so old I remember when disks were floppy, came in the 7" size, and were an awesome replacement for punch cards.
Still haven't beat Zork tho...
This is a direct attack. Defederate this motherfucker!
We still have Sharpie.
I think it's listing these as one item, not four. Use LimeWire to download the songs on the PC, burn it to a CD, then label it with the Sharpie.
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Hell, my daughter used limewire.
bruh 💀 my grandpa had me burning CDs for him forever
I remember lightscribe and thinking it was going to replace my need for sharpies but it was just a gimmick and while cool not very useful given the cost of disks
Barely but yeah
Wow, lime... Those times
I made one the other day, though I bought the music from HDTracks instead of "acquiring" it from Limewire or Kazaa. Burned it to a CD because the bus I drive has a CD player but no SD card slot or anything.
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I didn't think I was old until this post... I'm like the youngest millennial you could be.
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