This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…
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.
I’m hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.
Was one of them ordered from germany so it didn’t have the macrovision circuit in it?
No idea, it was the neighbour kid’s VCR.
Kind of a joke few would get. For a period of time in the late 80’s into the early 90’s it was very hard to get a german made VCR. Odering them straight from there wasn’t really a option. You could only get them at high cost unless you knew someone in the military over there. They would go to the local PX, buy one and ship it home. It was good way to make really good quality copies.
I’m this old.
Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track
Wrong Dell.
I still use CDs at work…
Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.
The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.
This guy nibbles… And Gorillas
Don’t hurt me like this.
Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool’s Sober to my HDD.
The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.
I think there will soon be a nostalgic wave of people degrading recordings to sound like mp3s that have been compressed to hell.
I can hear the jingle bell high hats already.
You don’t know old until you’ve had to change the IRQ for your sound card because wolf3d.exe’s settings were different than swotl.exe.
Limewire was the shit. But I’m so old I started with Napster
Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II
My favorite memory of that era was awkwardly asking my mom historical questions to get past the age block.
‘Mom! Who was Nixon’s vice president?’ or something like that.
Ah, life before the Internets…
Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck
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