Comment on RIP obsolete tech

• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  unneccessarily rude!

  They might be just genX.

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  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    millennial. turned 40 this year.

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  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok dad

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    • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok zygote

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    • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      holy cow, how are you still not in bed, kid! Off you go!

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  • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay Xoomer

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s just zoomer again

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      • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s pronounced Ex-oomer

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  • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m a millennial and I burned a CD last month

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    everyone forgets about gen x

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ...who?

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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think burning CDs much much of a boomer activity.

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The phrase just means, “alright old person” now.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And I declare that calling someone a cunt now means that you like and respect that person. Please go ahead and use it on your boss next time you see them.

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  • lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CD players were first sold in 1982, when Boomers (if the baby boom started 1945) were hitting their 40s and established in every industry. I think they were actually the perfect demographic to be able to afford a CD player when it first came out.

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    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      First affordable CD burner was from 1995. 50 year olds tend to not adopt new technology, it’s a millennial thing.

      computerhistory.org/…/consumer-cd-r-drive-priced-…

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      • EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. … And instructions to be honest…

        As for the “Boomer” commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won’t go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a gen-x thing, you know, the forgotten generation.

        Lived through the “DOUBLE SPEED!!!” reader up to the 52 some read-write-rewrite.

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      • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yet again, GenX is overlooked.

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      • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m in my 40s now and I definitely did not burn near as many CDs as my dad did (he was born in '49)

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but burning CDs yourself wasn’t a thing until much later.

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• nuko147@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No boomers are the ones reading the CDs not writing them. Their kids are writting them.

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