I’ve still got CDs I burned back in 08. Nowadays its blurays
There was a DVD in between you know
Yeah went there too, but all of those have not survived here
Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who’s glued to their phone all day.
I’m a school bus driver and I’m not even joking when I say I blew my kids’ minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, “Wait you can do that?!”
Made me feel old as hell.
It would take less time to just search “burning cds” than even posting this.
Back in my day we burned a lot of CDs…
Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma’s ass!
;)
Yeah, it’s probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it’s been drinking.
This CD is not for your Stereo, it’s for your Computer!
CDs nuts!
Got em.
Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
Yes. It was neat, but actually sucked because the contrast was so low. Switched back to Sharpie after a few
Help me out here
Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs
The best name for a piece of software I’ve ever read lol
I used Nero. Is this person I’m supposed to be aware of in the picture named Nero or something?
I’m no lepidopterist, but from context I’d guess that it is indeed Nero.
A much maligned Roman emperor, Nero supposedly (but almost certainly not actually) haughtily played some instrument or the other during the Great Fire of Rome.
Hence, “burning a CD-ROM” is easily associated with him even though the story is almost certainly not true and “ROM” (read only memory) was the suffix of the CDs that COULDN’T be burned 🤷
Honestly, this was some A-tier wordplay, especially considering that the company who made it is was German.
Absolutely!
Is that last bit a dig at German humour?
I hear it’s not a laughing matter.
I thought they studied butterflies?
They do, yes. I’m just doing a variant of the “I’m no geologist but (says things that have nothing to do with geology)” meme 😁
Omfg I just got that 🤦
Good ol alcohol 120%
“We used to mark them ‘summer mix’ and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time”
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
Is that the thing that holds the phone mount?
No no, the disc changer was in the glove box. The radio had a cassette player. I used it with one of those cassette adapters to connect my iRiver mp3 player.
I did it at 80 for style points
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!
Linux has built-in in dvd burning and ripping tools that work amazingly. Been ripping all my ps1 and ps2 games.
FYI: unless you have a very specific model of CD drive, your PS1 backups aren’t perfect copies. They will work but the copy protection might not have been read properly. It’s not important in 99.9% of use cases. If you need a perfect copy, download NoIntro dumps.
Good info. Mine have been working well. But I still keep the hard copies I dont get rid of them. But yes disc rot is a thing though ive not experienced it
DVD-R or DVD-RW?
not the dvd+r dvd-r shit again
+R.
If you’d asked me, I’d have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.
“Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff”
And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
I burned a CD just a few days ago.
I just punched a card yesterday.
I inscribed a clay tablet just this morning
It’s about that scumbag Ea-nāṣir, isn’t it?
His copper is subpar.
I recited a saga an hour ago
I’m painting a cave wall right now.
Why? What did the card ever do to deserve that?
It was a nasty piece of card.
They’re particularly nasty at this time of year
