Back when CDs ruled

When the wonderful creator of this amazing community says "pencils", I reply with "CDs" Logical, duuuh!

We were staying at my place for a week of vacation and of course I had to take these photos. I even had it written down in my reminder notes. (: I was a little disappointed though when I realized that the pile of CDs in my head was never actually mine. I used to look at them and borrow them from my brother and from the neighbor. Remember that at my younger cousin's place, I was already a girl in puberty and instead of chasing my first crushes, I was watching Zorro. Also, at my neighbor's place, when we were little, we watched the cartoon about the little reindeer Rudolph with the red nose like aaa hundred times. Annabelle's Wish, too. Those were our favorites.

As I am writing this now, a kind of false memory is popping into my head... that these were actually VHS tapes, but no, I know they were CDs with cartoons. Maybe I fall into the category of "newer generations", but I clearly remember VHS tapes as well as radio cassettes, even though I was 8, 9, 10 years old back then. Later on, everything was replaced by new technology at the speed of light, so do not be surprised if kids look at you blankly when you mention a floppy disk. I only learned in theory what it was used for and I had one broken one as an example. ☺️

Here you can see that the title Crni Gruja" appears three times. The first season, bottom left, is my favorite, excellent show!!! The second one is so so, because the main actor was changed and I was never particularly impressed by the movie. Then there is the Van Helsing film and the cartoons Bugs Bunny and Popeye the Sailor... <3

And when you get or buy a new DVD and besides the movie, you also get a cartoon for free, like in the example of the film The Conversation (F.F. Coppola) where the cartoon "Yolanda, Daughter of the Black Corsair" was included gratis, there is simply no bigger happiness at that moment. (:

At one point, I remember that the books were moved to storage and on everyone's shelves there were only and only CDs, with all kinds of colorful covers. From a distance, it looked like a real library of "books" with perfectly identical thicknesses. Everything lined up perfectly, as we would say.

And that never fully clarified difference between the terms disc, CD, and DVD, phahhahah. We all called it whatever suited us at that moment. xD

The fact is that we probably all had way more of those without covers, the ones we illegally burned ourselves. I only learned later that it was illegal btw. For us, from early childhood, it was completely normal to download everything from the internet, burn it ourselves, install it, crack it, even the operating system itself, movies and music was a piece of cake.

So much music, compilations, live concerts, series, games, movies, entire franchises, programs, literally everything! Whatever you wanted, you could find it. There was practically nothing we did not have burned on a CD.

Tests for the driving exam, English lessons, choral music, PowerPoint presentations that we often made at school for different subjects. Then installation discs for TP-Link antennas for catching the internet,and also the CDs we got with our first mobile phones. Sony K750, my absolute favorite! There will be a blog about them too. (:

Do you still keep your CDs and how nostalgic are you when it comes to them? I am veeeery nostalgic. It starts loading, a bit scratched, image freezes for a second or two... Those were the days. Or you take it out of the player, blow into it, wipe it on your hoodie, put it back in and suddenly it loads better. We all thought we were "experts", because you touch something a bit, put some effort into it and it actually works. That easy. 🥰