theyre at least 20 years old my dad has 3 of these 92-CD holders, filled with pirated windows from 95 through 7, pirated PC and Xbox games, pirated movies and some drivers
I wonder any of those still work.
they still read fine
good selection! 🤌
Hell yeah! You should check for a lot of those if they’re available still via the normal means. A lot of the old and good fansubs are just outright missing, probably because a lot of people did what you did and then life happened and the availability fell along with the demand for fansubs for new series.
For example, a lot of the big fansub names are gone, and their seeds moved on. I know the content, for a lot of fansubs still exists in forms like you have here, but it isn’t available on the internet and is at risk for bitrot and being lost media.
See if you can find ways to seed stuff for a while. I know at least I have a couple dozen stalled out 0 availability of them that I’m just waiting to magically appear online one day, that I myself will then try to seed. Maybe you’ll make somebody’s day, or year.
Edit: also, some fansubs that are lost end up being the only sources of the original version. It’s rare, but it does happen.
Yeah, I’ll do that when I have time. Though first I need find out if I lost the data or not. If not maybe I can even seed them, who knows. However most of this media were rmvb files, so I don’t think I can recover fansubs as text.
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You should probably rescue those before they rot. Disk rot is a thing
Let’s see if they held up for ~20 years. Honestly no idea what I’ll find out. Hopefully I can check soon.
Fansubs?
Of course!
I love that old stuff. Nice!
Yeah, those were the days!
Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!
Agreed! I should rewatch that.
Planetes and Cowboy bebop, the best animes ever made
I’ll put Seirei no Moribito above them all, mostly because nobody ever seems to even know about it and it breaks my heart. The novel was good, and the anime ended up ten times better, somehow!
Hey, I’ve never seen this one, thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely watch.
Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that’s when I was watching them.
Yup, it’s full of late 90’s and 2000’s anime.
Aren’t read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?
Unless you use them only once, probably yes.
The fabled write-only system
Only write. No read!
I like me stone tablets.
Ok, now listen to this gif
Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.
Planetes, Gungrave… nice taste :)
Heh, thanks! :)
I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.
No worries, I had many kind of CD-specific pens back then.
BECAUSE YOU SNIFFED THEM! ADMIT IT!
…we all did it.
Hey, who told you that?
DVDs didn’t have that issue, fortunately.
In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it’s mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there’s a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.
Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.
I don’t think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.
If it makes it more illegal I’m all for it. :)
I uh… Have several of those legit, after watching them other ways
And has likely lost its data integrity through time :(
Don’t say things like that, I haven’t checked them for a long time. :(
will check them after moving out phase though.
You’re looking at (very) roughly 10 year lifespan on those things. Helps a LOT that you kept them properly stored and all, but once you’re done moving, you take a weekend and transfer all that shit to a new medium, you hear? It’s easy to just forget about the stuff in the attic until one day you’re like, wow, do you remember when… And then you open up the storage and rats ate it all. It kind of really sucks. Don’t be like that. Don’t be rat man. Be great man. Or woman. Or whateveran.
I knew they don’t have a long lifespan but didn’t know it would be that short. I guess I’ll see how they’re holding up soon-ish. I mostly renewed them with 1080p versions of them by now but most likely not the same fansubs. Some of them might not have active torrents though, those would be nice to recover.
Because of this, some people have termed our current era as the digital dark ages. All of our digitally stored information has an extremely short lifespan and it will be hard for future generations to recover anything from media written today. Right now, the only way to ensure that data continues into the future is to make frequent backups on new media.
Thought of this is horrible but it seems that’s where we are sadly. Even the 3000 year old tablets are still around yet we cannot recover 20 year old data because of sun burn and mites.
I burned loads of DVDs with my favourite shows in the mid 2000s, almost none of them were readable only a few years ago… good thing is I switched to a jellyfin server and found better encodes of pretty much all the shows
Better encodes aren’t necessarily better
Yeah don’t make the mistake so many of us other shmucks did and think “ah, whatever, it’s all online now anyway”, because before you know it, no it ain’t, and you just lost your last copy to mites.
A lot of it ALREADY isn’t.
2006ish?
