Me and my sisters got a cassette recorder we had to share between us for such things. There were a lot of hours spent listening to the local AM station doing homework and hoping you could catch your favorite song to record.

It took determination and time to fill a cassette doing that. Buying 45's was faster but more expensive.

Hoping that the deejay wouldn't talk some vapid shit over the end of the song while they fade it out

Digital Nazis know no bounds

Eh... What?! Certainly remember pre-optical mice, but replacing the balls with eggs was surely not a thing?

my brother (at the time 10yo) told me (4yo) that it would explode if i drop it on the floor.

According to the Internet, wine 11 added 16 bit support back in for 64 bit systems.

You can get Bluetooth to aux devices so you can send music over Bluetooth. Works great, did that for a long time myself.

I've got a similarly older vehicle. I ended up buying a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the aux jack for, like, $10.

I was still using 3 1/2" floppies regularly until 2014.

I still have an optical drive, and i just put a disk in it about an hour ago.

The only sad thing is people foolishly abandoning physical media.

I didn’t find it sad. The writing was on the wall for physical media and I ripped it with the highest accuracy I could. I still have those albums in CD quality today.

That track at the end of Further Down the Spiral that relies on CD skipping is sort of lost to us, I guess. You can replicate it but kids won’t accidentally stumble upon it. Just like kids won’t accidentally stumble upon the “3rd spiral” of vinyl records. The Easter egg era is over.

My old pc's still have drives I use sometimes. Or well, only my previous pc. My oldest one, the one I built when I was 18 (21 years ago), still works but it's a time capsule. Running state of the art XP and photoshop 7, Winamp, C&C red alert 2, age of empires 2.

Last time I burned a cd was to copy a CD a friend bought in North Korea. Maybe I'll backup some photos on a dvd in the future. Because fuck cloud services.

It was our generation's Pearl Harbour. You remember the exact moment you heard about it and what you were doing.

For me, I was in the car, getting driven back to school after having gone home for lunch.

Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.

then got sent home from school that day and saw it covered everywhere and it was the only thing everyone would talk about and wouldn't shut the fuck up about. After a while it was just fucking annoying to hear about it.

That was an amazing time to be alive. I miss it sometimes. No need for a music streaming service when you have 4 gigs of music on one CD. Then If you get bored you can pull out the other CDs that also have stupid amounts of music. Or maybe you burned all of a language learning program onto one disc. ALL of the language discs onto one.