What "I was there!" stories are you impatient to brag about to the next generations? (lemmy.world)

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[-] waz@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I remember borrowing CDs from friends and converting them to MP3s in the mid-late 90s. Admittedly I didn't really know what I was doing, so I couldn't really explain it to my friends, but ripping CDs with Windows CLI programs and amassing a huge (for the time) digital music collection was something I thought was super cool. Unlike wav files, I could actually (not always) fit a whole song on a floppy disc!

[-] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

My homies and I use to share cds, and then splitfile the mp3s onto multiple floppy disks. Still faster than 56k limewire.

[-] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

If I put myself in the mindset of the time, this makes complete sense. Looking back though it sounds ridiculous.

I love it.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

I was ripping CDs from the public library... Onto cassette tapes

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