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Moving out so found one of my older archives. You can guess how old it is. (i.ibb.co)

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[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that's when I was watching them.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago

Yup, it's full of late 90's and 2000's anime.

[-] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

Planetes, Gungrave... nice taste :)

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

Heh, thanks! :)

[-] Carmakazi@piefed.social 11 points 3 months ago

Aren't read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago

Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

Unless you use them only once, probably yes.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 months ago

The fabled write-only system

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Only write. No read!

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I like me stone tablets.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

Ok, now listen to this gif

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[-] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago

I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

No worries, I had many kind of CD-specific pens back then.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

BECAUSE YOU SNIFFED THEM! ADMIT IT!

...we all did it.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Hey, who told you that?

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

I had a binder full of video CD's because my laptop only had a CD-RW drive. It usually took two disks to hold an entire film.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

And then there were four disks Stephen King films.

[-] probable_possum@leminal.space 8 points 3 months ago

Lain. Nice.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

12x re-writable DVDs would be from the mid 00s.

[-] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Fansubs?

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Of course!

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

I love that old stuff. Nice!

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, those were the days!

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

I don't think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

If it makes it more illegal I'm all for it. :)

[-] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

2006ish?

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Those DVD’s look fly.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

I uh... Have several of those legit, after watching them other ways

[-] lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Lain. I want to see it again to not understand it again.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zip 4 points 3 months ago

And to think Nana manga still haven’t returned from hiatus after all this time……

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

And has likely lost its data integrity through time :(

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Don't say things like that, I haven't checked them for a long time. :(

will check them after moving out phase though.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Saturnalia@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

DVDs? Cant be that old.

[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Sic. This made my day.

Also, early 2000's. :)

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I think out of those I only watched planetes, or I just don't remember. Even planetes all I remember is people born on the moon being big. And shiritori in space.