My favourite name for any application ever is Nero.
What does Nero do?
Burns (CD) ROM!
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2026
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I miss Zip drives.
I burnt a cd like 3 weeks ago, this technology isn't as archaic as you think
We’re on lemmy. Our opinions on how widely used tech is don’t count.
Personally my last 3 PCs haven’t had a disk drive and I can’t remember the last time I’ve SEEN a disc. It was almost certainly before college.
Jeez... I'd record on a cassette the top 20 from the radio on friday nights!!
Me and my sisters got a cassette recorder we had to share between us for such things. There were a lot of hours spent listening to the local AM station doing homework and hoping you could catch your favorite song to record.
It took determination and time to fill a cassette doing that. Buying 45's was faster but more expensive.
Hoping that the deejay wouldn't talk some vapid shit over the end of the song while they fade it out
You ever have a car cd player that plays files? You could put every song you downloaded from LimeWire onto a single disc.
That was an amazing time to be alive. I miss it sometimes. No need for a music streaming service when you have 4 gigs of music on one CD. Then If you get bored you can pull out the other CDs that also have stupid amounts of music. Or maybe you burned all of a language learning program onto one disc. ALL of the language discs onto one.
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I was a Napster guy, then a Kazaa guy. I had moved on to torrents by the time Limewire was the big thing.
Though I haven't actually pirated anything in over 10 years. Was thinking of getting back into it and setting up a Jellyfin to keep some family members from giving money to streaming services that support fascists, but don't even know where to get files anymore. I've already got a VPN for privacy reasons, so I think I'm good there, but I can't imagine Pirate Bay is still a safe source
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We had to use these dammit.
Remember kids, be kind rewind!
I saw some post the other day by a teenaged girl, saying something along the lines of “y’all are mixing up the Challenger explosion and 9/11. There’s NO WAY teachers actually turned the classroom TVs on to watch the towers fall. You millennials didn’t watch it happen live.”
Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.
Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.
then got sent home from school that day and saw it covered everywhere and it was the only thing everyone would talk about and wouldn't shut the fuck up about. After a while it was just fucking annoying to hear about it.
I'm in Europe. I still remember my dad calling me on the landline after school, telling me to "turn on the TV and have fun". To this day I don't understand why he added the "have fun" part..
I believe you (I'm 29) but why did everyone's teacher wheel in the TV cart?
My school, we had a CRT TV up in the corner of each room. How else would we see the student-produced morning announcements?
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Anyone else remembers having to cook eggs to replace the ball on the mouse? It was ridiculous.
Eh... What?! Certainly remember pre-optical mice, but replacing the balls with eggs was surely not a thing?
Ask your parents, sure they did it and never told you about.
What happened to the original ball?
Its get used and dirt for the table. You can clean the ball but eventually it lost material and became too small to work functionally and you had to overcook an egg to replace it
my brother (at the time 10yo) told me (4yo) that it would explode if i drop it on the floor.
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“Ripping CDs” was a concerning term for non-technical friends even back then. I had to assure them it wouldn’t ruin their discs. It does sound more violent than it really is.
My car is a 2001 and has a CD player. Normally, this would preclude playing phone music (without that FM transmitter bullshit, at least), but this CD player was built to accommodate a 6-CD changer in the trunk, and you can buy a little gadget that plugs into the port for this and allows an aux jack to feed audio into the player. This worked great for me until my latest phone which has no audio port. My USB-C to 1/8" jack technically works, but the volume is way too low. So I'm back to burning CDs for my car.
You can get Bluetooth to aux devices so you can send music over Bluetooth. Works great, did that for a long time myself.
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My mother just gave me the walkman I had in high school, which I guess was in a box somewhere in her house. It still works, and in it was a cassette I taped off the radio
Is that even legal??
Not only legal, this was an old way of distributing software.
In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded-games-from-radio.html?m=1
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The Old Magic Will not be Discussed with Children of New
There was a day when you inserted a CD into your computer for the last time and you didn't even realise. Sad when you think about it.
I didn’t find it sad. The writing was on the wall for physical media and I ripped it with the highest accuracy I could. I still have those albums in CD quality today.
That track at the end of Further Down the Spiral that relies on CD skipping is sort of lost to us, I guess. You can replicate it but kids won’t accidentally stumble upon it. Just like kids won’t accidentally stumble upon the “3rd spiral” of vinyl records. The Easter egg era is over.
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I was still using 3 1/2" floppies regularly until 2014.
I still have an optical drive, and i just put a disk in it about an hour ago.
The only sad thing is people foolishly abandoning physical media.
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Circa 2017, I build my first desktop computer, I get the cheapest disc drive money can buy. Since then I've used it to burn one(1) CD. Any software disc I've tried using with it was too broken and out of date, leading me to download the driver instead.
I've tried using a friend's game disc on it, assuring them that Wine for Linux supports 16-bit Windows games. Turns out they dropped that support months prior.
It now stands its silent vigil, waiting for its purpose to be truly fulfilled.
According to the Internet, wine 11 added 16 bit support back in for 64 bit systems.
Not burning DVDs
Digital Nazis know no bounds
It was 2002. Was going on a 1 year assignment to Australia.
Spent almost 24 straight hours feeding CD after CD into my fancy 6x reader, ripping and converting to MP3. Brought my whole 5' high tower of music on the plane in a harddrive.
Almost 25 years later(!), same direcory has been added to and copied to a hosted VPS from which I stream.
“Press play on tape one.”
I think burning CDs is a hate crime. They should be loved, and maybe given better wigs
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When I was 15 I bought a CD burner for my PC. This was circa 1999 and Napster. It cost about $250 (which is a little over $500 in 2026) and it had to be installed and in a more complex fashion beyond plug USB and let's drivers auto install. I was selling custom CDs for $5 with case inserts and paid off the burner in about a month. Then someone snitched on me in school and eventually burners started becoming standard on all new machines
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They're burning to see deez nuts! Got 'em!
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