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
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.
Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!
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.
Agreed! I should rewatch that.
Aren’t read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?
Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.
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
Planetes, Gungrave… nice taste :)
Heh, thanks! :)
I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.
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.
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?
Fansubs?
Of course!
I love that old stuff. Nice!
Yeah, those were the days!
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.
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.
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.
2006ish?
Lain. Nice.
24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔
Not that old, this was more of a recap archive (CDs to DVDs). Hint: There is Monochrome Factor’s first episode. No idea why I didn’t wait for it to be finished first though.
Those DVD’s look fly.
Lain. I want to see it again to not understand it again.
