memes

Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck

Where are the speakers, that warned you about incoming calls?

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.

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

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

8088 era is in da house.

I started college with a 1.44 MB floppy disk in my pocket and graduated with a 1GB USB stick.

I'm old enough to remember when computers didn't even require a hard drive, they could just boot right into Basic from ROM.

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.

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.

This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.

Yes, fuck you

My first mix tapes were cassettes recorded from the radio.

How did the Sharpie get dragged into this? I still need to use one of those for work.

Anyway, i fit the description. Win.com, Soundblaster IRQ, Audiogalaxy, BBS, etc. It seemed like it was more fun back then. Marketing ruined everything. 🤷‍♂️

I remember doing that...

last year (besides limewire, I needed some CDs to copy to minidiscs)