The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.
The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.
The cassette to aux converter felt like black magic back then. I left mine in so long that it made a creaking and snapping sound when I finally took it out when getting rid of the car.
'95 here. I not only burned disks, but we had one of them fancy schmancy monochrome label burner disk drives. So many MS Word font effects were burned that I’m sure I lost 20 IQ points from the plastic fumes.
I had a 64 MB Samsung Yepp mp3 player super early. Didn’t stop me from burning CDs at all, considering the player could only store about one CD anyway.
Not sure whether I’m gen Z or millennial, but I definitely burned a lot of CDs. And successfully burned about 20% of them. If even the floor creaked the CD would skip and basically be destroyed.
I may not be the average experience for somebody my age though, considering when I was like 8 I remember using a tape recorder to record my favorite songs from the radio onto a cassette.
Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.
Gen Z:
~1995~2013
Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.
I was born in 98, it’s just that some people are insistent millennial ends at the year 2000, while others insist on 1996.
I’ve also heard whether or not you remember 9/11 as the benchmark, and I do, but only barely because I didn’t know what was actually happening.
There’s also some who say it’s whether or not you remember the turn of the millennium, which I don’t because I was 2.
The generation borders are just so fuzzy that I’m often tempted to just go with “zillennial,” but for some reason people think that’s offensive because it “alienates gen Z” or something.
Same lmao. '02 here. I was handed the family tape player and I once used it to record a song from a YouTube video because I couldn’t make the computer record itself. I was 12.
I remember once Limewire became popular it was almost a magic trick to get a clean install of it. Most people I knew had a copy that came with all the toolbars and malware.
The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.
The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.
The cassette to aux converter felt like black magic back then. I left mine in so long that it made a creaking and snapping sound when I finally took it out when getting rid of the car.
I went minidisc of iPod, then a Zune.
I still think both were the best decisions of the time, but apparently no one else did.
But I think it was only like 4-5 minidiscs to get the same capacity as the first iPods.
Removable storage will always be a plus
'95 here. I not only burned disks, but we had one of them fancy schmancy monochrome label burner disk drives. So many MS Word font effects were burned that I’m sure I lost 20 IQ points from the plastic fumes.
Man that sounds so cool
Oooh I remember those
I’m barely a millennial and I burned a few CDs. But yeah it was only a few and before I got a tape to aux connector for my car
I had a 64 MB Samsung Yepp mp3 player super early. Didn’t stop me from burning CDs at all, considering the player could only store about one CD anyway.
I was born in 2003 and I burnt my own CD. But I had a geeky dad and quite old hardware
Not sure whether I’m gen Z or millennial, but I definitely burned a lot of CDs. And successfully burned about 20% of them. If even the floor creaked the CD would skip and basically be destroyed.
I may not be the average experience for somebody my age though, considering when I was like 8 I remember using a tape recorder to record my favorite songs from the radio onto a cassette.
Millennial:
Gen Z:
~1995~2013Now don’t forget it, culture wars are important!
I was born in 98, it’s just that some people are insistent millennial ends at the year 2000, while others insist on 1996.
I’ve also heard whether or not you remember 9/11 as the benchmark, and I do, but only barely because I didn’t know what was actually happening.
There’s also some who say it’s whether or not you remember the turn of the millennium, which I don’t because I was 2.
The generation borders are just so fuzzy that I’m often tempted to just go with “zillennial,” but for some reason people think that’s offensive because it “alienates gen Z” or something.
It’s so Gen Z to feel alienated for that. :p
Not only was the definition fuzzy. But it also depends on location with rural areas lagging behind urban.
Same lmao. '02 here. I was handed the family tape player and I once used it to record a song from a YouTube video because I couldn’t make the computer record itself. I was 12.
I remember once Limewire became popular it was almost a magic trick to get a clean install of it. Most people I knew had a copy that came with all the toolbars and malware.