• rozodru@lemmy.world
    3·
    47 minutes ago

    I had a program that came with special CD Labels for the printer where you could make your own cool CD label covers. that was fun.

    Or going into a Dreamcast IRC channel to download games and burn them to disk. I think I only ever actually bought like 2 Dreamcast games, Shenmue and Seaman, the rest were just burned to CD-Rs.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.

    • villainy@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it’s writing at 300 KBps and… buffer underrun. So many coasters.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    4·
    5 hours ago

    …and for a while it was fairly normal to refer to writing bootable USB sticks as “burning” as well.

    Now I don’t say that anymore because I don’t want to sound like a boomer, or - worse - I don’t want people to take me at my word or think I’m just plain mad.

  • tenchiken@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    67·
    12 hours ago

    Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn’t actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.

    This is part of why you could burn “faster”, although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.

    I am very, very old.

    • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
      27·
      11 hours ago

      “Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

      Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

      Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

      • DivineDev@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        11 hours ago

        I used those big floppy disks with some ancient hardware for running physics experiments during university in like 2015-ish, and I’m sure that exact floppy is still in use today. It’s not even a small and underfunded university or anything.

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      12 hours ago

      As the owner of a CD burner so old there was no speed to note, and later upgraded to a 4x burner…

      I’m also quite old it seems.

      Edited to add: I bought it at a computer show. The kind that you showed up to in person and paid like $5 to get into. I also bought a used laser 128.

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    15·
    11 hours ago

    I had to explain what a CD was to my kids the other day because I saw a CD-ROM mirror and decided to get one. We didn’t even cover what “burning” one was.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
    11·
    12 hours ago

    What I miss most is burning .cue files with hidden tracks; you just don’t get the same high from streaming services.