You should not be speaking of this!!
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.
“Rip. Mix. Burn.”
I didn't catch that joke for decades.
the fact that so many people missed it is sad.
public education should be the nation's most important expenditure.
Just now got that it was even a joke.
"No, that's my pc's retractable drink holder."
gotta get the adapter for your disc man that plugged into the car cassette deck
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?)
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.
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.
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.
MP3 player to cassette adapter.
nobody tell them about how we recorded songs from the radio and made mix tapes
Meh, songs. We recorded computer programs from the radio!
Holy shit, I didn't know you could do that.
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...
Light Amplifier by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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.
Right? It was fucking highway robbery.
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
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
Burned. Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
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.
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.
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.
Me matey!
Yarr!
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.
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.
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...
go to feed...
go to feed...
Not only we burned CDs, we also RIPPED them
save