The very first CD I burned

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Skeeedunt

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Things were a lot more fun back when they were mildly terrible

I remember dragging a zip disk full of who knows what kind of garbage over to a friends house to burn it all on a precious CD.
 

DigDog

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I went from a 2400bps modem to a USR Sportster 14.4...WOW was that thing fast!

one of my friends had a 400 baud (later upgraded to 800 baud) modem on his C64 !!!
back then, i had no idea what that thing even was.
 

PottedMeat

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Apr 17, 2002
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'99 on a yamaha 4x4x16x? i burned a bunch of movies and mp3s i think that thing cost $200

that burner died after ~2 years of very light use

surprisingly all the yamaha 4x cdrws i bought at the same time are still good!
 

stormkroe

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Ah yes, Taiyo Yudens were the bomb back then. Nothing like waiting 45 minutes for a burn only to have it fail with other brands! Hahaha.

Oh man, and Lightscribe...

Wow, yudens. Haven't heard or thought that name in ages.
My first drive was a memorex 2x, first disc was a warez archive, though I did manage to burn a horrible cam version of The Matrix, 740mb took 2 weeks off and on (thank you server with resume), thought I was cool enough to be IN that movie.
And light scribe, haha. Look! It says dirty words, but now only holds 275mb!
 

lupi

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Apr 8, 2001
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remember getting a 4x cd player in 95 so I could run
 
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Red Squirrel

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Oh wow I used to do the same, I totally forgot I still have these. I'd have to go through them one day and see if they still work. This is probably one of my first:



2002, pretty crazy. I totally remember that, a lot of the stuff was burned before even testing it, and turned out to be fake. Those were the days where you might spend days downloading something over dialup only to find out it's a fake, and does not work. I do remember getting Autocad 2000 over dialup, I have a separate CD for that. Back then programs were not quite as bloated though, they were always under 600MB. Windows 98 was like 300MB installed. Not sure why everything has to use so much space now days, to basically do the same thing.

And while I was digging in this box, anyone remember Word Perfect? That's an actual legit copy too:



I think it came with our first computer, back when they'd actually give you the CDs so you can reinstall if you have to.

Have lot of other goodies in here, like some super crappy quality burned copies of Star Wars, before HD was even a thing.

Funny thing is, despite how ridiculously old this stuff is, it's probably still illegal. Well I'm in Canada so don't really have to worry about a FBI raid, otherwise I would not be posting these.

A lot of my burned CDs are actually just stuff I downloaded legally like free utilities though and archived work.

Now days I just keep everything on spinning disks in my raid arrays, so I never burn stuff any more. I still have some floppies somewhere too. Used to use those mostly for school work.
 

master_shake_

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56k with a 4x4x24 burner.

my dad paid out the ass for it.

but i made mix cd's for everyone.
 

Possessed Freak

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First thing I burned was in 1995- Mechwarrior 2. Gave a copy to my friends for multiplayer. GOD that game rocked. Always wanted a modern sequel to it, but Microsoft got a hold of the franchise and ruined it.

Pish, you needed Netmech to play that multiplayer.

First one I made was probably some backup with winamp, game patches, printer drivers, etc. Yeah I was kind of boring.
 

Red Squirrel

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56k with a 4x4x24 burner.

my dad paid out the ass for it.

but i made mix cd's for everyone.

Haha I remember making mix CDs for people, even my mom. We'd go on Napster and she'd pick out all her songs. Those were the simpler times of computing. I would not want to go back though... things have gotten better in lot of other aspects such as internet speed being literally 1000 times faster. 50k (actual speed) to 50 meg lol.
 

Ken g6

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Back in the day when if you breathed wrong you had a coaster that took 4 hours to make.
The first one I tried to burn was a copy of UT99. It didn't work. :\ I eventually bought a copy instead.
 

master_shake_

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Haha I remember making mix CDs for people, even my mom. We'd go on Napster and she'd pick out all her songs. Those were the simpler times of computing. I would not want to go back though... things have gotten better in lot of other aspects such as internet speed being literally 1000 times faster. 50k (actual speed) to 50 meg lol.

ah napster.

the reason i talked my mom in to DSL.
 

Ichinisan

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Oct 9, 2002
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Mine was early 1999 on one of the first 4x burners. A CD-R with over 60 N64 games to use with my Dr. V64.
 

DrPizza

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ah napster.

the reason i talked my mom in to DSL.

Pre-napster, people were able to share files on ICQ. Then, along came Scour, before there was Napster. And don't forget - you "needed" a copy of winamp for your music listening, with some of the great screensaver backgrounds that changed to the music. I can't remember what my first CD-R was; I payed a fortune for the first computer we had for our family. I do remember the upgrade to the CD player - had to be a Lite-On. And, everyone was discussing brands of CDRs and testing them - if it was discovered that (whatever name brand) of CDs at Staples were actually Taiyo Yudens, there was a run on them at the store.
 

Red Squirrel

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I remember having a warez FTP server too, it was a thing where you just put it in your sig on forums, everybody would share their FTPs and upload/download stuff. It was somewhat an honour system.

I've actually thought of setting something like that up for general file sharing but it only takes one person to put actual warez or child porn and then I end up in jail, so bad idea. Times have changed.
 

Phoenix86

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May 21, 2003
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I had a 2400 baud rate hayes telecom modem and went from that to a 33.3k modem then 56k.

At the time it was very much, Mind. Blown.

Oh god, I started on a 2400 baud modem->9600->14.4+HSF (if I'm remembering things right, proprietary protocol)->33.6->56K. Back the warez and phreaking days...
 

88keys

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The Internet and PC Computing in the 90s was truly a unique experience. Dial up was the norm. A black computer case meant you were a badass. The statement " Apple Ames nothing but shitty overpriced products with absolutely no redeeming qualities" was completely true. Pirated software was much more difficult to obtain but 1,000 times easier to crack (If it was even necessary at all).

It's weird how most people accessed the Internet via their phone and the same is now true 20 years later. It has come full circle.
 
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Oyeve

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Oct 18, 1999
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My first READER was 500 bucks. Creative Labs. 1x reader. Came with 7th guest. Never finished that game.
 

Fritzo

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one of my friends had a 400 baud (later upgraded to 800 baud) modem on his C64 !!!
back then, i had no idea what that thing even was.

It was a 300 baud modem...had that too



ah .. the golden years of piracy ..

I installed a C64 emmulator last month just to play Pirates Finally finished it as a rich retired English baron with a hot wife
 
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Fritzo

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remember getting a 4x cd player in 95 so I could run

BTW- they have this whole series on GOG.com for cheap, and it's been updated to run on modern PCs. Blew the whole month of October playing through those...and they're just as good as you remember
 

Possessed Freak

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My first READER was 500 bucks. Creative Labs. 1x reader. Came with 7th guest. Never finished that game.

Mine was a creative reader, used a cassette holder, not a tray. It came with Loom, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, and Monkey Island 2. I played the *hell* out of those games.
 

Anubis

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Pre-napster, people were able to share files on ICQ. Then, along came Scour, before there was Napster. And don't forget - you "needed" a copy of winamp for your music listening, with some of the great screensaver backgrounds that changed to the music. I can't remember what my first CD-R was; I payed a fortune for the first computer we had for our family. I do remember the upgrade to the CD player - had to be a Lite-On. And, everyone was discussing brands of CDRs and testing them - if it was discovered that (whatever name brand) of CDs at Staples were actually Taiyo Yudens, there was a run on them at the store.

did scour actually exist before Napster?

both scour CuteMX and WinMX were vastly superior to Napster as they let you share anything not just music

I managed to bring down my entire college network using WinMX
they didn't think that was as funny as I did
 
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