This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
I didn't think I was old until this post... I'm like the youngest millennial you could be.
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People that age will see this and say "hell yeah"
How did the Sharpie get dragged into this? I still need to use one of those for work.
Anyway, i fit the description. Win.com, Soundblaster IRQ, Audiogalaxy, BBS, etc. It seemed like it was more fun back then. Marketing ruined everything. 🤷♂️
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No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.
That's how I serenaded my SO
Downloading 128kbit mp3 and then converting them to wav and burn on CD. It's all same same right 👍?