This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

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    2 months ago

    Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?

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      2 months ago

      Back in The Day, you’d write on CDRs with sharpie so you knew what each one contained.

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        Not just that, you’d hold the button so your portable CD player wouldn’t recognize the door was open while playing, and you’d write on the disc as it was playing and get perfect circles on a variety of colors. That was how you have people sweet mixes.

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        I understand that of course, what I don’t get is that it’s still there even though it hasn’t changed one bit since. Maybe I’m overthinking it