RE: Back when CDs ruled
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Do you still keep your CDs and how nostalgic are you when it comes to them?
Yeap, I think I still have them all. As I think I also have all my music tapes I recorded with music from the radio at first, and later copy pasted from rental CDs from a shop around the corner where I lived back in the late 80s. I even used music tapes to store computer programs for my VIC20 and Commodore 64. Then the recordable CDs came, the PC, Napster, Soulseek (I liked Soulseek a whole lot since it was used by professional producers to test their newest creations with the crowd) and whatnot. The recordable DVD popped up. And then, then all was taken over by a Network Attacked Storage device, a NAS. It wiped out all the needs for the magnetic tapes and the somewhat see-through silvery circles we started to use to watch a solar eclipse.
Last year I had all these CDs in my hand, the tapes, the VHS types as well, since I wasx executing a master clean of my apartment. I thought, I shall throw them, but I didn't. My logic: I still want to create playlists of all my music tapes and CDs. To record my history, I spend so much time creating, in the digital space, to keep until I die. At least for music. Series and movies, perhaps I shall ditch all the physical media I have, but still, I don't want to loose my most favourite TV series ever, Twin Peaks. And and and, the Goodfather movies I recorded from TV, and and and... a well, I probably will end up keeping all the tapes, CDs, DVDs I have, the orginral bought ones, and those I recorded myself.
Thank you for this comment. I really enjoyed reading it and discovering things I had no idea about before. It's great idea to create those playlists. I had something similar in mind, but just like with sorting millions of photos, I start and then give up because it's such a huge task. And in the end everything stays scattered across old computers, Google accounts, scratched CDs…
It makes me a bit sad when I think about how much good not-so-well-known music I used to share on my old Facebook profile that no longer exists. I cannott even remember what those tracks were, I just know they were really good. 😄
And so it goes... While we're holding on to nostalgia, AI is bulldozing everything at the speed of light. Still, my thoughts are wandering now, maybe that's not such a bad thing after all, cause all these good and valuable things we've had up until now will become even more valuable because of it..
That is a bummer!
Are you really sure the Zuckerberg team completely erased your old account?
He must start digging for you, since good not-so-well-known music should never get lost!
The bulldozer may also be someone (let's make it one of us) who helps us make our history more accessible.
Uhm, maybe we shall send Bulldozer AI to Facebook datacenters and give Mark Z a helping hand?
I am afraid so...:/ But maybe in some backup backup of the backup databazes, hm... Would be great to find that, but that would be SHOCK for people who permanently deleted their accounts, like I did.
Hihi, like this one! Mark, show yourself, bulldozer the helper is coming 🤸♂️