Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.

Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.

I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.

~10 years ago i bought one of those sony cd players with the giant carousel that holds like 200 discs. i probably spent a week burning entire discographies.

I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.

that day is yet to come.

The Initial D soundtrack so I could listen to it in my 90's Toyota Corolla.
This was in 2019.

I still do it though.

I also just ripped a CD last night.

It was Massive Attack Mezzanine and the cd is still in my old car for all I know.

Does it have to be a CD? Can't it be a DVD?

Just yesterday I burned a cd to listen to in our 2004 corolla. Pretty sure it wasn't the last.

Jokes on you, I just bought an old ass dell optiplex. That shit came with a cd drive. I actually didn't even check to see if it would burn tho. And I don't have a CD player. But I could! Probably...

without even realizing it

staring intensely at the CD-R drive

"Come on baby, you've got at least one more in you!"

My old car has a cd drive and really good speakers, and I have an old Linux computer with a cd/dvd drive, and cds are really cheap, and I pirate music, so the last time I burnt a cd was yesterday, and not out of novelty but because its the only way I can listen to music in the car.

I will probably burn another cd in the future, but ig you never know, lmao.

I burned a Blu-ray like 2 weeks ago. I also routinely burn CDs because my relatively new car still has a player built in (though I think in the last 3 years, Subaru got rid of it on newer models)

Yeah it was like maybe a few months ago when Fit For An Autopsy came out with their new CD. When the next one comes out, I'm gonna do it again.

I burned a CD a few weeks ago to listen to in my truck.

Would have been circa 2006, a fully loaded Windows XP SP2 + hotixes all-in-one installation CD, because I had to reinstall XP on my and friends and family I did tech support for every 6 to 9 months. Otherwise it would gum up and start having unfixable performance or outright faults.

I saw Vista on the horizon and said fuck that shit. Created an Ubuntu install bootable USB drive and dropped all tech support. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to install Linux from scratch. I use Arch btw.

Mine was "Irene's boot CD" so I could reset my friends windows 10 admin password he forgot.

Fuck this sharpie ad. And fuck donald trump

speak of CDS (and optical media/physical media?) Fun fact: there are still Video games/Music (even as new as 2025 and soon 2026) distributed in CDS,DVDS and vinyl.
so optical media/physical media are not Dying anytime soon.
(unless you count Blu-rays/Cartridges too,but its only mainly used as a download script on consoles though)

A university elective, Games programming. Had an open ended "make a game and write report on how it shows the learning outcomes of the unit".

I made a tiny game, just basic triangles shooting squares at each other on the ps1. I developed and tested with an emulator, but to demo for grading I burnt it to a CD and brought in my ps1

Me, burning my last CD for a school project: “I am for sure never doing this again” checkmate atheists

CD - About 8 years ago for plop boot manager, which I last used a few months ago.
DVD - 3 Years ago for a PS2 game, but now I use mx4sio.
Blu-ray - A few months ago to jailbreak a ps5.

It was probably some crap you would put on a flash drive since I didn't have a flash drive at the time.

I'm still burning DVDs of my pirated movies I downloaded

It wasn't that long ago. I've been trying Linux distros on my old laptop that can't boot from the USB drive.

Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.

Last CD I burned was about a month ago, "As in Gardens, So in Tombs" by ...And Oceans. My car only has a CD player but pretty decent speakers, perfect for the road.

I burned some mix cds for a 90s themed birthday party a few months ago. Those CDRs had been sitting in a spindle in my attic for 20 years and still worked!

a bootleg copy of windows XP to downgrade from vista on a weak laptop

I wouldn't bet on it, I just brought an old windows XP 32 bit back up and running just the other day because it didn't support anything but CD and network boot probably DVD too but I didn't check because all I had was blank CD's I had to install some odd Linux because nothing else would fit on the CD and run 32bit.

Funny that genA, or maybe genZ even, doesn't understand what "burn" a cd is. They might think we set them on fire or smt..

I thought that point in time had passed for me but a friend of mine is a bit of a technophobe and I wanted to share an extremely rare music album with him. So I burned another CD a few weeks ago... good thing I decided to keep my Blu-ray combo drive for just such an occasion.

No, I still do this for our sega dreamcast.

I can't remember the last CD, but I burned a boot disk for Mint Cinnamon onto a DVD-R not long ago.

I was having a slow day at work and stumbled onto some old blank CD-Rs. I burned a few Symphony X CDs for my friend. This was in like 2022.

I made a 15th anniversary "mix tape" on a CD like, a couple months ago? And they're useful in my car, so ... that's probably not the last time.

Although! Aside from music, the last use might be in high school when I used to sell bootleg anime to rich kids at the school. Lol

I remember when: 2017. Burned the latest South Park season to DVD for my sister's boyfriend at the time because they didn't have internet nor a flash drive handy.

I literally burned a copy of xp pro retail onto one of these exact discs last week. The old disc was also a Sony, but it was off centre and would vibrate the shit outta the drive and not read properly.

And you never knew it was the last time… that’s the weird part.

It was porn. Shameful, unexplainable porn.

I didnt destroy it either it just went in a bin somewhere after my last big move. I wish I could see the face of whichever future hobby tech-archeologist finds it.

this is the type of nostalgia I don't get. I don't miss it one bit. good riddance.

Mine was 30 CDs at the end of high school containing a video of the photo compilation from the class album.

Yeah, probably some PS2 game, or a elfboot for it

It was a Linux ISO. I didn’t care. I was one of those weirdos that used minidisc. I miss minidisc terribly and I do not understand why.

I could go burn another one right now. Flash drives are just easier and less wasteful.

It was a version of Ubuntu Server. I don't know what one I think 2012?

I burned the soft mod dvd for my xbox, but that was 8 years ago. I’m thinking about using some M-disc as another offline backup for my server.

I have never burned a cd

Not as often CDs but I burn enough DVDs, dual layer DVDs, and Blu-ray disks that I have to purchase 25-100 count spindles multiple times a year.

Backups. Probably an entire laptop before a rebuild. Probably to install Ubuntu.

7 or 8 years ago. Backing up the document folder on the computer.

MP3 CD for my car was probably my last one.

My car has a cd player, so I still burned them. bought a new pc case and it doesn't have a bay for it anymore. i'm a bit sad now. I have the thing on my desk, but can't use it.

48x lightscribe cd/dvd burner 🫡

I can't know for sure, but probably a game for Dreamcast. The last CD-R spool I bought has been my office door stopper for years and years now. Verbatim brand, 2/3rd remain of a 50 pack.

Pretty sure my last burn was a tool album. Pretty sure it was 10000 Days.

Maybe for you, but not for me. I got to have my Internet Archive software on my 98, and sometimes dameon does not want to work

no the last time i burned a CD was for kenza by khaled because i could only find the full album in good quality on CD

One day, you inscribed a clay tablet for the last time without even realizing it.

I haven't in a while but I can still see the value

Six months ago.

It was most likely the album Blueshift by the band Splashdown. The album was never actually released for sale, and it's one of the most amazing things I've ever heard, so I was always burning copies of it for people.

Of course now the whole album is on YouTube.

I might have CDs and CD-ROMs I burned 20 years that are still good, meanwhile some webpages and websites have gone away.

Never have, I didn't get into Linux ISOs until they needed a DVD for capacity anyway and then shortly after I moved onto USB booting.

The last CD I burned was when the last Tool album got leaked.

I still have a bunch of DVDs here for planned backups, I've never used

Ok, not a CDROM, and yeah, I can't remember what my last one was...
Probably some Linux ISO

Probably Knoppix

Both my wife and I's last CDs were mixes we made for each other when we had just started dating. It was really common in my area as a sort of get-to-know-me gift. I think we still have the one she made somewhere but I doubt it would play unfortunately.

I think it might have been CrunchBang linux over a decade ago

Funny enough, I used to write the dates on the CDs I burned. If I go dig out my collection, I could probably find the last one I made. My guess off-hand is that it was around 2008-2009, since that was the last time I had a car that didn't have a way to hook an iPod/phone to the radio.

Almost certainly a Kubuntu live cd for repairing and/or upgrading some old laptop's install.

I was always told that using a sharpie on burned CD's - and eventually DVD's - would ruin them.

I used sharpie on every one I ever burned. Not once did it cause an issue.

I burned some CDs for our apartment manager's husband a couple years ago.

Last time I made a note of burning a CD-R specifically was back in 2016 when I needed to get drivers onto a newly built Windows PC that didn't know how to deal with the Ethernet port on the motherboard...

I've burned a few discs more recently than that, but I think they were all DVD-Rs. (e.g. I have a DVD-R with Linux Mint on it that I burned last year, I think)

You'll go without doing something for decades, then one day the old knowledge is needed again and you get to dust off those memories.

Probably last year working on my retro PC build. For another person though, that is a different story.

Pen for scale?

They're still good for making OS install CDs for old servers. Especially since I have a pile of them still.

Or things like offline config backups.

I still a couple half-stacks of empty disks I never used...

Considering I have a stack of them still, and not only a working burner but a spare; I doubt I've done my last one yet.

That being said, I only burn them for car use nowadays, and they're mostly burnt as a collection of files rather than as a music cd. So maybe I have and will die before the next time I would. However, I do burn new ones every now and then as copies of specific albums, so unless I die, I'm not likely done until I can't have a cd player in my car at all

At least ten years ago. It was a mix tape cd.

I didn't realize it then, but I remember it now. Her name was Sarah, I had her put together her own playlist while we were smoking outside on a comfortable summer evening. So many memories...

If you own a Sega Dreamcast built before like December 1999, it runs burned CDs. Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation as well

Reminds me, I gotta get a stack of CD-R and burn some of my CDs that I've scratched up by rolling around in my car.

Porn?

I still burn CDS for my player in my truck. Plays mp3 cds so I dont have to haul a large CD case around

DBAN.

I don't know about CD, but I did a DVD recently. It was the installation media for OpenShift that the agent based install generates. For some reason the installer ISO that was made could not be booted with Ventoy or if dd'd to a USB drive. It seems to only work if booting from virtual media like Redfish or if you actually burn it to DVD... Honestly, my last CD was probably also some lunux distro in the mid 2000s.

Nope!

I still have a pack of blanks somewhere. That day is yet to come.

Couldn't be more happier than when I knew those awful things would become obsolete

Most likely a win10 install iso, I'd estimate 2015 give or take.

I work in IT so I still work with discs from time to time, though not so often as I used to. Last work disc I burned was an ISO of a bootable utility to wipe out the local admin password for a coworker that was going onsite to restore a controller PC on a plasma cutter that had decided to toss out it's nic drivers and nobody could get into the stupid thing to fix it lol.

In my personal life, last things I burned were a bunch of music mix discs for my girlfriend (now wife) when we started dating. That was 2013. Even then I didn't really deal with discs very much, but she didn't even have a smartphone at the time, so the discs were all she used or knew.

Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ipex. Until then, I still had a machine in the homelab that wouldn't/couldn't boot to USB.

Oh I realised it, it was when I had a portable hdd. So glad to never go back.

Ps2 games. I had gotten FreeMcBoot working, so had a great time burning a bunch of games.

Then the drive on my ps2 died, and not long after the drive on my ps3 died as well, so I look for alternatives to optical media as much as possible now.

I'm pretty sure that I called it "Beer Drinkin' & Poker Playin' Vol II"

Probably a movie I never watched.

Pretty sure it was in 2021, maybe '22. A compilation of tracks from Supergiant Games (makers of Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hades, Hades II). Yes I also drive a Corolla as two others have mentioned in this thread.

I burned everything. Created autostart menus, info files. Never touched it again until last month. I chucked it all out. Latest one labeled 2007.

My last CD was for windows xp for an old pentium 4 computer, my last DVD was open suse because I wanted to try it on the same pc. There's an 8 year difference between this 2 events. I still have 2 blank DVDs that I'm saving for a gift

Many years ago.

I honestly miss that part of my life dearly. Wish I appreciated it more when I had the chance.

I used to burn Linux ISOs all the time to CDs since they are useful to setup my servers. But annoyingly the new version of Debian, even the specifically labeled "CD" net installer ISO, doesn't fit on a CD anymore, so last time I had to do it on a DVD and wasn't that long ago.

never burned a cd in my life

A couple of years ago I digitised a VHS tape that had Terminator 2 recorded off TV. And I burned it on DVD-R.
(I think it had some sound sync issue though? Might need to hunt for a better DVD mastering software.)
You know, I love the Blu-Ray version, but the version recorded off TV has a special place in my heart. Pure nineties feels.

As for CD-Rs... I can't remember.

I went through a stack of blurays recently trying to make backups of myrient. I also burn CDs with some regularity to listen to in the car.

I'm a weirdo like that. I love physical media. It's unfuckwithable after you own it.