Old magic

8 months ago by Amuletta to c/witchesvspatriarchy

ICastFist 71 points 8 months ago

Not only we burned CDs, we also RIPPED them

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D_C 34 points 8 months ago

You should not be speaking of this!!

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 5 points 8 months ago

the sheriff's secret police will be along shortly for OP with tickets for a free mandatory vacation to the sheriff's secret luxury reeducation center and spa. speaking about the sheriff's secret luxury reeducation center and spa is forbidden.

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einlander 10 points 8 months ago

Didn't forget DVD Toasters

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atomicbocks 8 points 8 months ago

“Rip. Mix. Burn.”

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SCmSTR 5 points 8 months ago

Instead of the sound of a chainsaw, it's the sound of a 70x drive on the verge of exploding

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toynbee 2 points 8 months ago

I thought the disks would shatter if spun much above 42x ...

But I was told that many moons ago so maybe my information is outdated. Or maybe it was just never accurate.

Mulaney "Who's to say?"

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SCmSTR 1 point 8 months ago

I mean, I think technically the "x" is the read speed, and not necessarily indicative of what the maximum RPM is.

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einlander 38 points 8 months ago

Nero Burning Rome

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chiliedogg 12 points 8 months ago

I didn't catch that joke for decades.

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einlander 24 points 8 months ago

I mean it's icon was the colosseum on fire...

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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 3 points 8 months ago

the fact that so many people missed it is sad.

public education should be the nation's most important expenditure.

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theywanttocontrolyou 8 points 8 months ago

Just now got that it was even a joke.

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mitch404 4 points 8 months ago

I catch that joke now. I'm over 40.

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TheReturnOfPEB 35 points 8 months ago

"No, that's my pc's retractable drink holder."

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U7826391786239 22 points 8 months ago
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teft 35 points 8 months ago

Or burning a data cd of mp3s not realizing that your player will only play audio cds.

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U7826391786239 13 points 8 months ago
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ICastFist 6 points 8 months ago

That usually only happened once. Was kinda sad that my radio couldn't play the 100+ songs, but at least the computer still could and I needed the free space.

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cupcakezealot 16 points 8 months ago

gotta get the adapter for your disc man that plugged into the car cassette deck

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grue 8 points 8 months ago

Most kids back then probably didn't either, because they would've hooked the tape recorder up to the line out port on their computer if they wanted to do that.

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U7826391786239 1 point 8 months ago
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chaogomu 1 point 8 months ago

My friend, no one had a laptop in the 90s. They didn't become cheap enough for that until the early 2000s.

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grue 5 points 8 months ago

I didn't say laptop, I said "computer." You dragged the entire desktop PC, including the 50 lb CRT monitor, across the house to the hi-fi system (or vice-versa), and you liked it!

(Edit: you do realize I'm talking about using the computer to record to a cassette tape and then playing the tape in the car, not hooking a laptop up directly to your car stereo, right?)

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chaogomu 2 points 8 months ago

I had the little CD to cassette tape adapter, I also drove around with a laptop in the passenger seat plugged into the aux port, which quickly turned into a cheap mp3 player.

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leftzero 1 point 8 months ago

Does no one remember LAN parties!?

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teft 1 point 8 months ago

Across the house? I used to put mine on a wagon and drag it across town for lan parties. Lots of blankets to minimize bouncing and it was fine.

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echodot 2 points 8 months ago

My uncle used to work for Microsoft back in the day and so he had one of the earliest commercial laptops. I think the laptop weighed more than he did.

It had the worst screen in the world it had a viewing angle of about 4° but everyone wanted to see it.

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Bytemeister 1 point 8 months ago

I had a laptop in 98.

Ran DOS, not even Windows. B&W screen, if you wanted color, you could press on the screen and get a glorious rainbow. There was no mouse integrated into the laptop. Instead there was a serial trackball mouse. It weighed probably 19 pounds and had an impressive 45 minute battery life.

It also may have fallen off the back of a truck. Computers were way less trackable back then.

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ILikeBoobies 1 point 8 months ago path: 0 22141844 22160089, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
cupcakezealot 18 points 8 months ago

nobody tell them about how we recorded songs from the radio and made mix tapes

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leftzero 10 points 8 months ago path: 0 22142640 22146107, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 3
GalacticGrapefruit 2 points 8 months ago

Holy shit, I didn't know you could do that.

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leftzero 1 point 8 months ago

It makes sense, if you don't care about giving a headache to whoever tunes in to the station.

8 bit software came, for most people, on compact audio cassettes (the same kind we used to record music from the radio and make mix tapes, and which could be rewound with a pencil), which could be played on a cassette player if you didn't mind the noise (data doesn't usually sound good), so it's no wonder at some point someone (probably several people independently) came up with the idea of broadcasting that noise.

Another means of distribution were magazines... but typing up the code was a chore, unless it was a POKE to cheat at your favourite game...

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qaeta 2 points 8 months ago

Also from magazines! I remember an issue of Dragon that had the code for a full game printed in it, and you had to copy the code to your computer by hand and compile it.

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Gork 7 points 8 months ago

You toss a bunch of tapes in a bucket and mix 'em together, then bring them the bucket. Simple.

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prole 1 point 8 months ago

Villain—his smile stuns ya chick

While he put himself in your shoes run ya kicks

You heard it on the radio, tape it

Play it in your stereo, your crew'll go apeshit

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SCmSTR 17 points 8 months ago

We used fucking LASERS

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protogen420 2 points 8 months ago

Light Amplifier by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

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stoy 16 points 8 months ago

I remember burning some warez on a CD-R, getting a clean burn after 20min, and grabing a ballpoint pen to write the name of the warez on the disk.....

Sad times....

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proudblond 10 points 8 months ago

Also texting existed but was like 10c per text and would easily rack up huge phone bill charges. We used IM programs on the computer instead. No one relied on their cell phones to actually communicate outside of an emergency because they sucked and were expensive.

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prole 4 points 8 months ago

They also counted received texts towards your total, which is insane

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GalacticGrapefruit 1 point 8 months ago

Right? It was fucking highway robbery.

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sp3ctr4l 9 points 8 months ago

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it

Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it

Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it

Snap it, work it, quick - erase it

Write it, cut it, paste it, save it

Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it

Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it

Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it

Lock it, fill it, call it, find it

View it, code it, jam - unlock it

Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it

Cross it, crack it, switch - update it

Name it, rate it, tune it, print it

Scan it, send it, fax - rename it

Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it

Turn it, leave it, start - format it

Technologic.

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RejZoR 9 points 8 months ago

I recently found perfectly working HP external disc burner while dumpster diving electronics bin at work and I have uncovered ancient ways of witchcraft again that I have once known but forgotten. This stuff costs like 50€ in stores now and I found it again for free. Nice. Burned the CDRW disc I still had in drawer for test if it works fine and the process hit me with so much nostalgia lol

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BCsven 1 point 8 months ago

I got one too. Its a combo of drive and rca inputs for burning camcorder or VCR to dvd

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AngryCommieKender 7 points 8 months ago

Burned. Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.

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Bahnd 5 points 8 months ago

Disk rot is real, we must teach the young how to care for the relics.

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SCmSTR 4 points 8 months ago

I hate it.

I've always felt that, as children start to come of age, they should be given their own lifelong raid nas to store things efficiently. Like as an 18th birthday coming of age, "it is time you became an adult..." Then that kid won't have to rely on shitty cloud corpo dark pattern shenanigans.

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coronach 2 points 8 months ago

Indeed.... A recording of a performance I gave back in 2006 cannot be read by anything I've attempted 😔

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BarneyPiccolo 4 points 8 months ago

That's old magic, all but lost to the ages. It was practiced by ancient religions like Napster and LimeWire, but they are all gone now.

Best to let it rest. There is no advantage to dredging up all those old superstitions now.

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AngryCommieKender 4 points 8 months ago

Lost my ass. I still have external burners. DVD-Rs are cheap. Makes for a decent way to play my old Xbox and PS-PS2 games.

Also, yarr.

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BarneyPiccolo 3 points 8 months ago

Me matey!

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GalacticGrapefruit 2 points 8 months ago

Yarr!

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Ashiette 1 point 8 months ago

Some of us never forgot the old ways, just like there are still practitioner of the hellenic religions. You are but a few left and your religion is dead. We embraced the new religion, we stream and we do not possess, we talk to the clouds and let the data flow, where you used to burn and rip. We are pacifists, you were barbarians. You will not be missed and your religion is doomed to die with the lot of you.

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Zephorah 3 points 8 months ago

They mean GenX? Probably both. Maybe a Xennial thing if I have my terminology right.

Throw the phrase “making coasters” at this guy and see what happens.

I am sad he doesn’t know what an optical disc burner is, since they’re being sold and used through to this year.

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RejZoR 2 points 8 months ago

They are sold, but no one is using it. Like, my PC hasn't had optical drive for like a decade now if not more, my oldest laptop still has one, 2 newer ones didn't come with one at all. My car has CD player still, but I 3D printed a phone holder and jammed it in there and my phone is playing music via BT adapter and into AUX. And even before this, I bought the car specifically with USB port that plays MP3's and I've not listened to it that way for years now. But it's there. Can't imagine listening to CD's in a car these days...

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Zephorah 2 points 8 months ago

Non smart tv alternatives.

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snoons 3 points 7 months ago

It's the reason why They banned fireplaces in most cities.

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badbytes 3 points 8 months ago

Imagine asking social media for an answer, and not just searching. Use your brain youngooos.

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bilb 2 points 8 months ago

That is probably the best way to get the right answer, but getting the right answer might not be the poster's primary goal.

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Obi 1 point 8 months ago

When you have to post a minimum of 5x per day to fit in/keep engagement numbers up/boost your ego, any little thing happening (or not) in your life becomes a potential post.

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