This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
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Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?
Back in The Day, you'd write on CDRs with sharpie so you knew what each one contained.
Not just that, you'd hold the button so your portable CD player wouldn't recognize the door was open while playing, and you'd write on the disc as it was playing and get perfect circles on a variety of colors. That was how you have people sweet mixes.
I’m so mad I didn’t think of this 20 years ago.
Me too. Would have been so rad. I could have used my PlayStation which would always spin so I could boot with GameShark.
Yea cos you couldn't use a normal pen or it'd scratch the disc.
I understand that of course, what I don't get is that it's still there even though it hasn't changed one bit since. Maybe I'm overthinking it
Don't you know? Kids these days only know something twerk something eat hot chips something be bisexual etc..
I forget the brand but there was one you could etch a design on the cover of the CD with the burner. Futuristic tech at the time.