Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] macisr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be frank I am a 30 year old and had to think hard to remember how to burn a cd, and even then. I remember that you just picked the option to burn a cd lol. Remember when you actually needed 2 cd rom drives because images weren't a thing.

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm about the same age as you and images were a thing. The space of your hdd was probably the limiting factor. I remember ripping and burning DVDs for friends in middle school but it was a juggling act of storage space on an 80 GB HDD

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

A standard DVD only holds 4.7GB, though?

[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If you wanted to duplicate a CD you'd use a second drive. What I normally did though was rip music to MP3 then write 100 song mix tapes. Before I could play MP3s in the car I did CD to CD copies :)

It wasn't that images weren't available, it was that 700MB was too much for the amount of storage we had. If you had the storage you could write an image