And burning cd/dvd's is getting more popular due to disappearing content on streaming services. Some shows got removed and are no longer available to watch elsewhere legally. Such a shame.

Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor

Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.

I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!

Yeah, like Nero ... burning Rom(e).

being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google

Fun fact: It actually is kind of burning. With a laser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods

Not enough to set it on fire, but enough to change a dye from translucent to opaque.

I burnt a CD yesterday.

No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.

Burning CD'S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn't afford to text for hours on end

My.father burned thousands of CDs and DVDs to coax the old gods into giving him money. It took him 5 years to realize he was literally breaking even wasting hours a day. We had a hell of a dvd collection tho

I have not yet met a young person who doesn't know what a CD is. I feel like the internet has pranked me.

It was them, wasn't it? The kids. They started this rumor did they not? They're laughing at us right now, aren't they? They're reading this comment and they know I fell for it.

There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There's a open source project now but it didn't work for me.

Edit: i don't mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.

Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.

We Gen Z get called "the first digital kids" but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.

Ahahaha no way it's a set up for our benefit it's gotta be

I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.

Ahh, all you sweet summer children and your fancy CD burners and MP3 players.....

I remember the OG "mixtapes". Sitting on our bedroom floors for hours with a 9V 6 transistor radio and listening to the local rock and roll station hoping to hear your favorite group's new song being announced by the DJ so you could press the play and record buttons on that cheap portable cassette player to record the latest songs. All just so you could have a shitty mono recording to listen to.

If your Girlfriend gave you a tape filled with all her favorite music, it was like both of you were half ways down the aisle and headed for marriage. It was that serious.

I had this application that would print a CD shaped stickers. I could upload and design any background, and add text with any font. It was when computers peaked.

I got a usb cd burner online for $15 recently

A friend made a mix-stick for this girl as a birthday present. He just didn't mix songs but whole albums. She enthusiastically thanked him for the USB stick not thinking about that what is on the stick might be more important.

I got a mix-stick from him as well. I still listen to those albums sometimes.