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What nostalgic thing do you think should stay in the past? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 17 hours ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Dial-Up internet. Unfortunately, it's still here because the ISPs continue to fail to deliver on the promise of expanding broadband over and over.

And because of that, it's no wonder internet isn't expanded to everywhere in the country of USA.

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Burning DVDs was really a thing there for a hot minute. I remember buying them in big spindles of 50 at a time, and burning at least two or three a week.

Back then I already had my first ever USB flash drive, but they were still very expensive and small - 128MB was great for some documents, but no good for large files. And my PC's hard drive was still only about 120GB or something.

DVDs were in their element. 4.7GBs of storage, and super cheap. I was using them to back up data and clear apace on my hard drive, and I was loading them up with content for friends, where I could just take a disc over their house and leave it there for them.

Then flash drives got bigger, and hard drives got bigger too, and that sweet spot the DVD occupied got squashed from both sides until poof, in just a few short years the age of the DVD was over.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

... I still have probably 100 blank DVDs and a hundred blank CDs.

But I also have a 3.5" floppy drive so I'm not a good measure to go by on these things.