Dial-Up internet. Unfortunately, it’s still here because the ISPs continue to fail to deliver on the promise of expanding broadband over and over.

And because of that, it’s no wonder internet isn’t expanded to everywhere in the country of USA.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    4·
    7 hours ago

    DVDs too. If I never burn another DVD again, that will be A-OK with me. I hate having to babysit those. Give me a hard drive, USB, or server to move data all day.

    • tiramichu@lemm.ee
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Burning DVDs was really a thing there for a hot minute. I remember buying them in big spindles of 50 at a time, and burning at least two or three a week.

      Back then I already had my first ever USB flash drive, but they were still very expensive and small - 128MB was great for some documents, but no good for large files. And my PC’s hard drive was still only about 120GB or something.

      DVDs were in their element. 4.7GBs of storage, and super cheap. I was using them to back up data and clear apace on my hard drive, and I was loading them up with content for friends, where I could just take a disc over their house and leave it there for them.

      Then flash drives got bigger, and hard drives got bigger too, and that sweet spot the DVD occupied got squashed from both sides until poof, in just a few short years the age of the DVD was over.

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        38 minutes ago

        … I still have probably 100 blank DVDs and a hundred blank CDs.

        But I also have a 3.5" floppy drive so I’m not a good measure to go by on these things.

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 hours ago

      I don’t doubt it exists, but I’m kind of curious about workflows that still involve burning optical media in 2024.