Yeah but burning CDs yourself wasn’t a thing until much later.
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lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoCD 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.
superkret@feddit.org 1 day ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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-…
EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
In Germany MRI and CT images are regularly handed to patients on CDS.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Germany is also technologically 30 years behind the rest of the world…
thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same in the US.
KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shut up. They’re supposed to forget about us.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
I requested my medical records from my time in the military in 2014 and received them on CD. Which was funny because I didn’t have a computer that could read them at the time, and I still haven’t read them. Turns out the information i needed was already available to the people giving my c&p exam
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I had several generations, and it was always a huge speed increase. 52x was like lightning
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
52x baby. Much speed. Such fast.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Yet again, GenX is overlooked.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 day 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)