If you ever tried to burn way too many songs to a CD and got frustrated that it didn't work... it's time to stretch your back.
One year my school had a 3.5 inch floppy disk as part of the school supplies we were supposed to get. Mine was orange and you can tell a kid not to use it as a fidget toy, but they're absolutely gonna use it as a fidget toy. I don't think a single disk survived that year.
I also remember when my school got a fancy new "computer lab" that had all the colorful iMacs. There were still a few of the beige machines that read off of 7 inch floppies kicking around also.
it is a lost art now, I still have an unopened box of DVDs... Somewhere.
I have very fond memories setting up the candle and tuning the laser prism just right, following Razor 1911 instructions to set everything up correctly. While trying not to burn a hole in the walls of the house.
That box of dvds is your 99 potions left after beating the game
I used to rip and burn CDs all the time when I was a teenager, and in truth.... I dont know.
Gotta make sure it's an RW so you can change up your music every so often!
This is fake because "burning" is a CD specific term, and no real Gen Z would know that you "burn" a CD to put music on it.
Most would probably just assume it works like a USB stick or any regular digital storage format.
It's like how a hilariously large amount of people don't know what the origin of "mixtape" is. They think its just a word that defines music mixes, because no one knows what a cassette player is anymore, or that people actually used to create and sell mixtapes.
Fuck, some of the younger rappers actually put out mixtape cassettes now. There's a fairly brisk but low demand market for not only used tapes, but there's bands releasing them im special editions.
I'm kinda regretting dumping some of my old tapes. I kept the stuff that's impossible to replace (local bands mostly), but I sometimes get nostalgic for the liners. Not the sound being shitty, or how fast tapes wear out, or anything else about the format, but there was something coool about the way the liners unfolded that isn't as satisfying with CDs, or even vinyl.
I'm in a band and we make cassette tapes. They sell like hot cakes. Our last run sold out in a single day on bandcamp. Many people buy them and don't even have cassette players. They're cheap to make and I think many people just want a cool souvenir.
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alyssa, @tamaranians
Maybe its just the generation z in me but how did people burn CDs? Like how did you just get a blank CD and put songs on it?
Friendly Fat Hottie, @TeriAmour
There are people alive that don't know how to burn CDs. I'm fucking old.
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