• sebinspace@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I suppose not everyone had the hardware to cut their own vinyl, so being able to stick the disky thingy in the bleep bloop machine and make your own diskies at home sounded kind of bizarre at first

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      11 months ago

      We had recordable tapes for quite a while beforehand though

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      11 months ago

      As a teenager musician in the 90s, I salivated over the hulking $1k device that could write CDs that lived at the back of the Guitar Center catalog.

      Also, the $2.5k Akai MPC for sampling/sequencing.

      Now I can do all of this with my phone, but I’m too busy taking a shit before I go to work to stock shelves.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah my mind went right to this. My dad had a few 45s but that had meant paying for a rehearsal space with recording. That was probably the last major medium the average user couldn’t make their own

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      11 months ago

      It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.

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          11 months ago

          In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD’s really didn’t really go mainstream until the very late 90’s.

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            11 months ago

            The Sega MegaCD didn’t have any copy protection because people couldn’t burn their own CDs yet.