Comment on RIP obsolete tech

• entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In Germany MRI and CT images are regularly handed to patients on CDS.

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      • KMAMURI@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Shut up. They’re supposed to forget about us.

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      • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I had several generations, and it was always a huge speed increase. 52x was like lightning

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        52x baby. Much speed. Such fast.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yet again, GenX is overlooked.

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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