In high-school I used MagicISO to rip DVDs I rented, burned them, and sold them to classmates for $5.
Same except it was DVDs from the library, so my costs were lower. You could buy a 50pk of blank DVDs for $10 (or CDs for $5) from Fry’s Electronics.
you had a tiny needle and a little hammer, and you would look through a jeweler’s loupe to see where to carve in the 1s and the 0s. It was a golden age.
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I never learned to burn CD’s cause I had a friend whose dad burned them for us. Not sure if that makes anyone feel old or not.
The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.
The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.
I’m barely a millennial and I burned a few CDs. But yeah it was only a few and before I got a tape to aux connector for my car
Not sure whether I’m gen Z or millennial, but I definitely burned a lot of CDs. And successfully burned about 20% of them. If even the floor creaked the CD would skip and basically be destroyed.
I may not be the average experience for somebody my age though, considering when I was like 8 I remember using a tape recorder to record my favorite songs from the radio onto a cassette.
Same lmao. '02 here. I was handed the family tape player and I once used it to record a song from a YouTube video because I couldn’t make the computer record itself. I was 12.
Millennial:
Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
Gen Z:
~1995~2013Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.
Now don’t forget it, culture wars are important!
I was born in 98, it’s just that some people are insistent millennial ends at the year 2000, while others insist on 1996.
I’ve also heard whether or not you remember 9/11 as the benchmark, and I do, but only barely because I didn’t know what was actually happening.
There’s also some who say it’s whether or not you remember the turn of the millennium, which I don’t because I was 2.
The generation borders are just so fuzzy that I’m often tempted to just go with “zillennial,” but for some reason people think that’s offensive because it “alienates gen Z” or something.
Not only was the definition fuzzy. But it also depends on location with rural areas lagging behind urban.
It’s so Gen Z to feel alienated for that. :p
I was born in 2003 and I burnt my own CD. But I had a geeky dad and quite old hardware
I remember once Limewire became popular it was almost a magic trick to get a clean install of it. Most people I knew had a copy that came with all the toolbars and malware.
'95 here. I not only burned disks, but we had one of them fancy schmancy monochrome label burner disk drives. So many MS Word font effects were burned that I’m sure I lost 20 IQ points from the plastic fumes.
Oooh I remember those
Man that sounds so cool
I had a 64 MB Samsung Yepp mp3 player super early. Didn’t stop me from burning CDs at all, considering the player could only store about one CD anyway.
The cassette to aux converter felt like black magic back then. I left mine in so long that it made a creaking and snapping sound when I finally took it out when getting rid of the car.
I went minidisc of iPod, then a Zune.
I still think both were the best decisions of the time, but apparently no one else did.
But I think it was only like 4-5 minidiscs to get the same capacity as the first iPods.
Removable storage will always be a plus
I’m old enough to remember a time before CDs existed.
A time when the height of mobile audio was an 8 track mounted under your three on the tree.
Betamax was the superior format. VHS was cheap crap.
Yes it was, but it was Sony so they locked everyone out of the tech. Paving the way for VHS to win the format war.
What about Video 2000? The audio quality was so much better that when we finally switched to a VHS player I thought there was something wrong with the cable connecting it to the TV.
Never saw that one.
I don’t think it was ever available outside of Europe, but it had some major advantages such as a completely bonkers 8 hours run time per tape, perfect still images without distortion, and the ability to reverse or fast forward without the artifacts you’d see on VHS and Betamax.
Betamax was a Sony proprietary format, so they decided to lock everyone else out like morons.
I used to rip and burn CDs all the time when I was a teenager, and in truth… I dont know.
Many monks would spend months on illuminating just one CD.
I’ll never forget the chant:
“See-Dee Rahm, See-Dee Aye, See-Dee Are Plus, See-Dee Are Minus, Are Double-yew.”
The household tower when I was young had 2 CD drives. The actual computer wasn’t much, but boy, do I remember all the burning my mom had me do for her peoples
Don’t forget to hold the CD and candle close to the speaker that’s playing the song. The closer you get, the higher the volume.
Wait, what? Please explain this to me
It’s in reference to the title of the post and they’re “playing along”
Wow another forgotten thing. I feel old
What?
“Lasers”
Candle, pfft I put em in the microwave
The sparks mean it’s working!
I just saw a post on Reddit two days ago that said “During the 80s, did kids really just go outside and run wild for hours or is that just in the movies/TV?” and the same feeling hit haha
Me explaining minidisc to a 20 something cashier at the pawn brokers.
