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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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*

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

6 months? Cars had them for years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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! 😎

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

tell that to my parents car stereo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

RIP my blue Rio cd player.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I had one of these bad boys.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never Obsolete

Intel Celeron

and that's why eMachines died off

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

LGR, is that you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I also have the Duke bust from Duke Nukem Forever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

:O

The leaning tower of PCia!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Software" 2007.

Definitely contains NERO Burning ROM.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You call this old?

Try punchcards, kiddo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, you’ll know… after the fact

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone remember Microsoft Zune?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But does it have...

T U R B O?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Looks like a Dell Optiplex 755