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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago

Surprised they even know what a music CD is.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I don't know how film is developed and nobody ever made fun of me for not knowing.

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[–] macisr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (3 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.

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

you had a tiny needle and a little hammer, and you would look through a jeweler's loupe to see where to carve in the 1s and the 0s. It was a golden age.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They must consult the ancient tomes. Or I guess ask one of us who have.

I still have my old CD holders somewhere.

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

I never learned to burn CD's cause I had a friend whose dad burned them for us. Not sure if that makes anyone feel old or not.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So we had special disk drives that basically zapped holes in a CD that played music or stored data. That's why we call it 'burning'

And get this: You didn't burn 4000 CDs. You burned one, sent it up to Sony in New Jersey, they cracked it open and then pushed it again polymer en masse to duplicate the CD. They called this "pressing."

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[–] 4am@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Candle, pfft I put em in the microwave

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

I still do it, granted I had to get an external CD drive to do so, but still. You put the blank one in and click "Burn CD" in your Zune software, it isn't that hard.

[–] BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I'm Gen Z and have burned both CDs and DVDs...

I can't believe that some didn't learn it, especially growing up in the 2000s prior to the iPhone/iPad.

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