This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
People that age will see this and say "hell yeah"
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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. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Record off the radio to cassette and an active market for pirated live shows because we lived past nowhere and it was all we had access to.
No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.
That's how I serenaded my SO
im literally 15, youre acting like CDs are antique vor smth
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.