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You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)
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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (15 children)

The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.

The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I went minidisc of iPod, then a Zune.

    I still think both were the best decisions of the time, but apparently no one else did.

    But I think it was only like 4-5 minidiscs to get the same capacity as the first iPods.

    Removable storage will always be a plus

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    '95 here. I not only burned disks, but we had one of them fancy schmancy monochrome label burner disk drives. So many MS Word font effects were burned that I'm sure I lost 20 IQ points from the plastic fumes.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Not sure whether I'm gen Z or millennial, but I definitely burned a lot of CDs. And successfully burned about 20% of them. If even the floor creaked the CD would skip and basically be destroyed.

    I may not be the average experience for somebody my age though, considering when I was like 8 I remember using a tape recorder to record my favorite songs from the radio onto a cassette.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Millennial:

    Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.

    Gen Z:

    ~1995~2013

    Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.

    Now don’t forget it, culture wars are important!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was born in 98, it's just that some people are insistent millennial ends at the year 2000, while others insist on 1996.

    I've also heard whether or not you remember 9/11 as the benchmark, and I do, but only barely because I didn't know what was actually happening.

    There's also some who say it's whether or not you remember the turn of the millennium, which I don't because I was 2.

    The generation borders are just so fuzzy that I'm often tempted to just go with "zillennial," but for some reason people think that's offensive because it "alienates gen Z" or something.

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