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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Me: I can burn 200 music tracks to play on CD?!

My CD Player: These are MP3’s, my boy, and my tired eyes cannot read them. Bring those WAV's that I know and love.

Me: Of course, grandad, of course.

*Sadly choose 10 tracks to burn, and discard the other 190*

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

There was a window of about 6 months where you could get a portable CD player that could play mp3s

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

6 months? Cars had them for years.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I had the Panasonic anti skip, and I will happily shout about being the hipster who was rocking the overhead headphones well before that became mainstream 🎧

This review takes me back to my youth ❤️

And the baggy jeans we used to wear back then often had pockets big enough that you could for the whole CD player inside! 😎

[–] LOLseas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Dare I hazard a guess you're referring to my pairs of Jnco's ? Apparently they're back in business, but caught shade for being overpriced.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Each bullet point was like a jolt of nostalgia. The MusicMatch reference hit me the hardest

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Incredible. I had no idea you can still buy these. I think my friend had this exact one back in high school

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My car CD player had that. And it worked great, until you decided to encode with a variable bitrate (e.g., lame --preset r3mix).

Oh well, 192 will do.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

tell that to my parents car stereo

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

RIP my blue Rio cd player.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Cmon, at least get the right tower:

A circa 2004 Dell Dimension tower style desktop computer.  A Windows XP and Pentium 4 sticker can be seen.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I had one of these bad boys.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never Obsolete

Intel Celeron

and that's why eMachines died off

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

I remember the never obsolete thing, it was a subscription thing where you would get a new machine like every two years but IIRC they canceled it before anybody got a second machine.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just meant for the meme. Our first PC was this one:

An Acer Aspire desktop circa 1995.

Before that we had a Commodore and I had limited experience on my grandparents’ 386.

[–] univers3man@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I also have the Duke bust from Duke Nukem Forever.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

LGR, is that you?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Putting "Never obsolete" on a celeron-powered PC is a special kind of irony.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 3 days ago

:O

The leaning tower of PCia!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

alright kiddo

1000001615

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Software" 2007.

Definitely contains NERO Burning ROM.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

or 750mb of porn

[–] ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But does it have...

T U R B O?

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My off-network hand-me-down computer could play CDRW discs, but only if the disc was in the machine when it booted up. That was an exciting issue to troubleshoot.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I vaguely remember a similar issue from either my win95 or 98 desktop.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You call this old?

Try punchcards, kiddo

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was a removed playing MP3s on a punch card though.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

mp3’s didn’t exist at that time, but we did play music using punch cards in the 1850’s…

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also: one of these is a virus, but you'll never know which one!

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes you will; "White & Nerdy" at 4020kB at the top and then again at 11,764kB down below? If you were paying attention, you could usually figure it out ahead of time, but it was easy to miss as a middle-schooler

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The bottom one is mp4, so it's probably a video, in which case the larger file size checks out. The two that are sus to me are the two In Da Tub files, one is mp4 but only 872.4 KB (unless it's in like, 160p or lower), and the other one in wma, because really, who the fuck is using wma, fuck outta here with that.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Good catch, on both accounts. I'd say there's a 50:50 chance that the mp4 is porn, though.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Oh, you’ll know… after the fact

What in the FCKGW is going on in this thread?!

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Anyone remember Microsoft Zune?

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It was the superior option at the time. I wish they never abandoned it.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Was ahead of it's time with the wireless sharing option.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Same with Windows XP tablet edition. Windows phone. I'm glad they stuck it out with Xbox.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Looks like a Dell Optiplex 755