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

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    I’m old enough to remember when that was the fancy new thing the kids were doing.

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      Me too, either old enough or poor enough. I had nothing but tapes and records until I seen a kid with a Discman at school and I HAD TO HAVE ONE. My mom got me one for Christmas finally and I had already traded up for every Nirvana CD, just had them there waiting.

      I jumped to burning CDs as quickly as I could because I always wanted to be one step ahead with tech.

      It’s crazy how far behind I am now. I always buy used phones, haven’t updated anything in my pc since 2014ish, still rocking a 2009 Mac Pro for music production.

      I have, eh, how do you say? Got old? :(

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        Technology has really slowed down a lot since that time. There is less public investment and corporations sure as shit aren’t going to finance all their own R&D. So why bother?

        There’s no virtue in needlessly cycling through new devices all the time just to satisfy one’s own emotions.