• TehBamski@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Haha dang dude. You were ball’n to afford a x4 CD burner back then.

    I made my money back in 6 weeks.

    I figured you were getting paid to make mix CDs from CD albums you had. As P2P Napster didn’t come out till 1999 and Limewire, 2000.

    CD burning was definitely something I wish I had done back in middle school. Ha

    How was your CD burning hustle? How much did you charge for a CD? I’m interested to know more.

    • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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      1 year ago

      LOL, back before p2p there were direct download web pages in the prehistory of the web. I was pirating music in 1996 (maybe earlier?)

      deeznuts had a basic search page and hyperlinks to a direct download of most popular music, and on a 56kbps modem it would only take about 45 minutes per song.

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      1 year ago

      My brother had just started a computer collage course that required everyone to buy a 100$ cd.

      We provided them for 20.

      I burned ps1 games for 10$ a pop.

      Music cd’s were 20 just for the hassle of me getting all the songs. I think I was using… Ing it’s been so long.

      Text based. BBS feel. Chat rooms. Omg I’m. Embarrassed I can’t remember.

      Irc! Holy shit I wonder if that’s still around?

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        1 year ago

        IRC is around. Not that many users since it doesn’t handle mobile use well. Matrix (Discord, Signal etc) is even starting to replace the last user groups though.