This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    87·
    7 days ago

    I’m exactly that old.

    Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we’re all thinking of:

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        6 days ago

        I mean, they are half right. The music industry is eating itself. Back catalog is outperforming new releases year after year because new music is dead.

        • Thassodar@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          Hi! I’m a musician with new music that is not dead! Check it out: www.thassodar.com

          Bonus: 99% of them are instrumental, and the ones that aren’t don’t have any actual lyrics and are only on SoundCloud.

        • Vespair@lemm.ee
          5·
          6 days ago

          New music is thriving. There is more music of almost every style and genre imaginable being released today than ever before. What’s dead is traditional music distribution channels and marketing avenues like radio, and the popular means of promoting music now reward the most dogshit meme-able content. But if you seek out music yourself, the modern era is a paradise of incredible music; don’t blame music itself for the failures of the industry to reward good within it.

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            New music is surviving. Of course it will survive. Music is an expression of our humanity.

            Thriving? I think not. When was the last time you went to a bar and people just starting singing and playing folk music? When was the last time you even heard of that happening? Once it wasn’t weird, it was normal.

            Music is dead because it has been elevated to something that is performed by the few and consumed by the many, instead of something that we all live together.

            • Vespair@lemm.ee
              2·
              6 days ago

              “Haute cuisine is dead! When was the last time you walked into a restaurant and saw aspic on the menu? When was the last time you heard of somebody serving aspic? Once aspics weren’t weird, they were the hottest fashion!”

              ^ That’s you.

              Trying to define the relevancy and lifeline of music as a whole based on the popularity of pub folk music is crazy.

              More people are making music today than ever before, as barriers monetary, technological, and knowledge-based only continue to lower with time. I have no idea how you’ve managed to draw the opposite conclusion.

        • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          New music is doing fantastic, it’s record companies that are dying. Most artists just self-publish these days.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      I had those at home when I was a kid.

      I was born around the 2000s

      It’s not really that old lol

      Granted, I was in a developing country, so the timeline of technological development is not quite the same (People’s Republic of China).

      Do people in the west still have Cassettes in the 2000s?

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Those of us who can remember used those to save programs. It could take an hour or more if you had a large enough tape save a single file.

      • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        A lot of people did: home, portable, car. But a lot of people had also left them behind for ordinary CDs, CDs full of MP3s and dedicated MP3 players like Rios and iPods.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Oh boy. I remember seeing an 8 track system once… I was very curious, and honestly, I still don’t have any of the answers I wanted. They’re just no longer relevant. The tech was old when I was a kid.

        I used dial up, so anything that’s post-Internet, I’m probably older than. I still remember the idiot news anchors going “move over Internet, here comes the world wide Web”… They’re literally the same thing. What the fuck are you talking about?

      • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        I grew up with a Bally Astrocade from birth. My dad had bought the tape peripheral, but I don’t think he knew what the hell to do with it. Just sat in the box.

        We had dozens of cartridges for it though. I think he just liked buying new tech, because I never saw him playing it.

  • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    6 days ago

    2001, Dre’s album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre’s new album five bucks right here.

    He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      4·
      6 days ago

      There was a kid who was selling the cheat codes for pokemon he printed off gamefaqs at my school. One of my friends found out I had internet access and asked me if I would get them for him. After I did that some other people asked me as well. Eventually the kid who was selling them got wind of it and got a couple of his other friends together to jump me on the playground at recess. I remember laying on the ground looking up at him standing over me threatening me if I didn’t stop doing that and just thinking “this is really stupid…”

  • Ken Oh@lemm.ee
    30·
    6 days ago

    Remember how when you would burn a CD you couldn’t use your computer lest the write buffer dropped too low and the burn world fail?

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      14·
      6 days ago

      I remember buying a stack of CDs only to find out they were +R, not -R, and this utterly useless (or something like that, can’t specifically recall whether ±R/RW).

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        12·
        6 days ago

        I remember this being a DVD thing. By the time I got a dvd burner though mine supported both.

        The RW issue with CDs was that a lot of older players couldn’t read them.

        • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          I damaged the laser on a PS2 by using a DVD-RW. They’re harder to read than a normal disc apparently, so it wore the laser down pretty quick

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
            3·
            6 days ago

            Can you believe my original ps1 is still rocking hard with zero adjustments?

            My ps2 is currently dead, but it was because I used thicker wire than necessary when modding it a thousand years ago and I need to just heat up the solder a bit.

            That console is a nightmare to disassemble/reassemble though and it’s been down for around 15 years. I’ll fix it one day.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
                2·
                6 days ago

                And just saying, if it’s the 72 pin connector, you don’t need a new one. Just pop yours out and bend the pins back out. It’s very very easy, honest to God there’s no reason to get a new one. I have new ones in my closet, probably 20 of them, but I’ve never really needed to use any of them.

                If you don’t want to fool with that PM me your address and I’ll send you one.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
                2·
                6 days ago

                Oh man they’re so so so easy to fix.

                My childhood NES had a capacitor go out recently and the color was off. It still worked it was just ugly.

                I have like 10 of them so I just swapped my case, but for some silly reason it’s like I don’t feel connected to the “spirit” of the machine because of it.

                I’m going to have to order new capacitors and you just reminded me.

                Get that thing fixed. It’s so so easy.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      Or trying to re-burn a cdrw but it was originally not burnt with the same soft as yours 😓

      🗑️💿🚮💔

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I remember the funny lines on the back when I accidentally bumped into the tower or had the subwoofer on as it was burning.

      Also holding down on the close-pin on a discman (so it would keep spinning the disc) and differently coloured sharpies were a great way to colourize your collection.

  • Emerald@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 days ago

    This isn’t very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD’s and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.