Feel old yet?
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Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn't actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.
This is part of why you could burn "faster", although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.
I am very, very old.
"Floppy disks" were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer
Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies
Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop
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I had to explain what a CD was to my kids the other day because I saw a CD-ROM mirror and decided to get one. We didn't even cover what "burning" one was.
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"Floppy disks" were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer
Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies
Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop
I used those big floppy disks with some ancient hardware for running physics experiments during university in like 2015-ish, and I'm sure that exact floppy is still in use today. It's not even a small and underfunded university or anything.
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Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn't actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.
This is part of why you could burn "faster", although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.
I am very, very old.
Nerd alert!
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Microwave
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Microwave
I'm going to tell (and show) my kids that's what "burning a CD" was
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I'm going to tell (and show) my kids that's what "burning a CD" was
They will love it
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They will love it
Especially the smell, lol!
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Especially the smell, lol!
I went to a LAN party way back in the 90s, and there was one kid who had a burner. It was back when they could easily fail to burn, so he had a stack of failed burns for us to nuke all night.
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Still the best no frills digital audio medium.
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Still the best no frills digital audio medium.
Even over the mini disc? Blasphemy!
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I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.
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postapocalypse looking kinda cozy
Strong Ivan Bilibin vibes (but apparently it's by an another Russian artist, Ernest Lissner).
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mkisofs . | cdrecord -? -
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...and for a while it was fairly normal to refer to writing bootable USB sticks as "burning" as well.
Now I don't say that anymore because I don't want to sound like a boomer, or - worse - I don't want people to take me at my word or think I'm just plain mad.
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Even over the mini disc? Blasphemy!
MD 4 Life
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Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools
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Me explaining what "Insert Disk 2 of 5" means.
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Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn't actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.
This is part of why you could burn "faster", although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.
I am very, very old.
I am very, very old
Good job !
And thanks for the explanation. -
I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.
Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it's writing at 300 KBps and... buffer underrun. So many coasters.
