Remember when you had to burn a CD for someone to share music?
By @fayeok2 · Nostalgia
My nephew (16) was asking me how we listened to music before Spotify. When I explained making mixtapes and burning CDs, with the song limit and how long it took, he looked at me like I was a dinosaur.
The full story
It was a whole ritual. You had to have CD-Rs, you had to have a computer with a disc drive that could burn, you had to download songs from questionable sources (shout out to LimeWire), and then you had to carefully curate the playlist because you only had 80 minutes. The whole process took hours. And if you messed up the burn, that was it, the disc was toast. He just makes a playlist and texts it to his friends in five seconds. It's wild how much has changed and how little kids today understand the struggle.
How people voted
- Facts — 32% (37 votes)
- Depends — 33% (38 votes)
- No Way — 34% (39 votes)
Readers are split: “No Way” leads with 34% — 114 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@reeseyk — The way my jaw DROPPED when I realized my niece thought a floppy disk was a 3D-printed "save icon." You are not alone!!
@plottwistlol — My first burned CD was a mix of blink-182 and the Shrek soundtrack that I gave to my crush in 7th grade. He never talked to me again.
@kaitlyn — Soft.
@noelmm — Make him sit there and burn a CD of his favorite songs. That'll learn him.
@sam — I miss the romance of spending 4 hours downloading viruses just to make a mix.
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