This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
Where are the speakers, that warned you about incoming calls?
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I had so many burned CDs with games and music... This was back when ADSL internet was the hot new thing with incredible download speeds of 30kb/s
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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.
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How else was I going to play pirated music in my car?
With a cassette to 3.5mm jack adapter and a discman on an anti-skip cradle, obviously
Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck
8088 era is in da house.
I actually remember albums. They were these physical discs that actually existed within our 3D world. Made entirely of vinyl, they played on a modular device designed entirely for their use and their use alone. In comparison, they were close to the same thickness, but considerably larger than even the ancient CD-ROMs were!
And they sounded SOOOOO much better than anything you’ve ever heard.
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I still have my 2005-2008 era Sony Vaiao in the garage at my parents house. If it booted up, I'd probably still have limewire running.
I need to wear a knee brace or use a cane, and I'm not even exaggerating.
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I remember doing that...
last year (besides limewire, I needed some CDs to copy to minidiscs)
This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.
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...
My go to:
Does nobody remember Bearshare?
Oh, aye. Bounced through all those programs.
Learned about computer viruses and protection the hard way.
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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.