theyre at least 20 years old my dad has 3 of these 92-CD holders, filled with pirated windows from 95 through 7, pirated PC and Xbox games, pirated movies and some drivers
I wonder any of those still work.
they still read fine
That’s nice to hear.
Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that’s when I was watching them.
Yup, it’s full of late 90’s and 2000’s anime.
Planetes, Gungrave… nice taste :)
Heh, thanks! :)
Aren’t read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?
Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.
Unless you use them only once, probably yes.
The fabled write-only system
Only write. No read!
I like me stone tablets.
Ok, now listen to this gif
I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.
DVDs didn’t have that issue, fortunately.
In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it’s mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there’s a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.
Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.
No worries, I had many kind of CD-specific pens back then.
BECAUSE YOU SNIFFED THEM! ADMIT IT!
…we all did it.
Hey, who told you that?
I had a binder full of video CD’s because my laptop only had a CD-RW drive. It usually took two disks to hold an entire film.
And then there were four disks Stephen King films.
Lain. Nice.
2006ish?
Close, 2008.
Halt, citizen!!
You are found GUILTY of PIRACY!! You are mandated by libertarian law - and the honor system - to report to the Corporate Repayment Labour Camp for 40 years of indentured servitude!
If you fail to report, a division of ICE run by a cloned Dog The Bounty Hunter will be dispatched, 10 years will be added to your sentence and at least 2 generations of your offspring will be mandated to pay Corporate Reparations and will forfeit all their intellectual property rights to the Mega Yachts for Emotionally Stunted Yuppies charity.
You agreed to these terms when you were born and signed the license agreement by crying in the Pepsicola Maternity Ward.
This sentencing brought to you by the Houston Payday Loan & Organ Brokerage firm. Problems paying rent? You don’t really need two kidneys. The option is on the table, and so is your kidney.
24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔
Not that old, this was more of a recap archive (CDs to DVDs). Hint: There is Monochrome Factor’s first episode. No idea why I didn’t wait for it to be finished first though.
Good old Lain, I should rewatch that.
Somehow it’s still set in the present day, present time.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!
Planetes and Cowboy bebop, the best animes ever made
I’ll put Seirei no Moribito above them all, mostly because nobody ever seems to even know about it and it breaks my heart. The novel was good, and the anime ended up ten times better, somehow!
Hey, I’ve never seen this one, thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely watch.
Agreed! I should rewatch that.
12x re-writable DVDs would be from the mid 00s.
12x! DVDs!!?
My first recorder was a 1X caddy unit.
Get off my lawn.
Young one, my first “recorder” was a 3 1/4 floppy disk drive.
That was my first CD burner. I’ve actually punched cards, programmed on a PDP11 on a tty, loaded programs from a cassette and still have a handful of 8" floppies somewhere, but thank you for the “young one” 😊
Fansubs?
Of course!
I love that old stuff. Nice!
Yeah, those were the days!
I don’t think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.
If it makes it more illegal I’m all for it. :)
