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You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I suppose not everyone had the hardware to cut their own vinyl, so being able to stick the disky thingy in the bleep bloop machine and make your own diskies at home sounded kind of bizarre at first

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We had recordable tapes for quite a while beforehand though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

We even called our MP3 CD compilations "mix tapes"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

As a teenager musician in the 90s, I salivated over the hulking $1k device that could write CDs that lived at the back of the Guitar Center catalog.

Also, the $2.5k Akai MPC for sampling/sequencing.

Now I can do all of this with my phone, but I'm too busy taking a shit before I go to work to stock shelves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah my mind went right to this. My dad had a few 45s but that had meant paying for a rehearsal space with recording. That was probably the last major medium the average user couldn't make their own

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The first commercially available CD-Rs were produced in 1988.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R

Tori Amos became popular in the 90s. The term burning a CD was in common parlance by 1993. I doubt that Tori is the origin of the phrase.

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

In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD's really didn't really go mainstream until the very late 90's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The Sega MegaCD didn't have any copy protection because people couldn't burn their own CDs yet.