Comment on RIP obsolete tech

• 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.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Germany is also technologically 30 years behind the rest of the world…

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      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Indeed, but I actually like this system: There are no breachable servers between the doctor and the patient, at least a few years ago everyone had a CD drive at home (I know that’s changing), and handing out a disk is way cheaper than a flash drive.

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    • thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Same in the US.

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  • KMAMURI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • 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.

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    • FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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• 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.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    52x baby. Much speed. Such fast.

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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yet again, GenX is overlooked.

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• 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)

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