• waz@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I remember borrowing CDs from friends and converting them to MP3s in the mid-late 90s. Admittedly I didn’t really know what I was doing, so I couldn’t really explain it to my friends, but ripping CDs with Windows CLI programs and amassing a huge (for the time) digital music collection was something I thought was super cool. Unlike wav files, I could actually (not always) fit a whole song on a floppy disc!

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      5 months ago

      My homies and I use to share cds, and then splitfile the mp3s onto multiple floppy disks. Still faster than 56k limewire.

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        5 months ago

        If I put myself in the mindset of the time, this makes complete sense. Looking back though it sounds ridiculous.

        I love it.