Jo Miran@lemmy.ml to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 days agoYour parents in 640x480 glory.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up198arrow-down1imageYour parents in 640x480 glory.lemmy.mlJo Miran@lemmy.ml to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square15linkfedilinkfile-text
I took a lot of photos with a lot of people during the late 90’s. I wonder if those backup CDs in storage are still good.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoIf you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks
minus-squareLePoisson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoI didn’t even know of the existence of those! Thanks for the new knowledge, I guess they never really took off much?
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 days agoThey were moderately popular around the turn of the century. They held 100-250MB but were pretty fragile. There were others called Jaz disks that held 1GB. But once you could burn a CD or use a thumb drive they weren’t worth the risk of data loss.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agodeleted by creator
If you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks
I didn’t even know of the existence of those! Thanks for the new knowledge, I guess they never really took off much?
They were moderately popular around the turn of the century. They held 100-250MB but were pretty fragile. There were others called Jaz disks that held 1GB.
But once you could burn a CD or use a thumb drive they weren’t worth the risk of data loss.
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