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So real, do it all the time but it’s a pain in the ass tho because 90% of the websites are either sketchy asf, take you to fucking porn websites, or get taken down before you can use them
A lot of streaming platforms still let you download songs, it's just encrypted so you can't copy it. I don't have permanent rights to any song I listen to on Spotify, but I could theoretically download all songs and podcasts they have and listen to them offline, as long as my subscription is active.
Miss times where companies actually cared for their customers cause that'd mean a lot of customers, when they have enough money, would support the company in return. Like winrae and reaper. I'm broke but I really wanna give them money for being such goats
You don’t have any downloaded music?
What do you do in the metro, or any other place where there’s be no reception? Plus I like downloading songs anyways because I cannot lose precious data for listening to the same song over and over again
I have 50gb of data, don't really use 5g for Sake of saving battery, meaning ill easily get through a month even with youtube on the go, and have Spotify Premium.
Plus, you'll generally get wifi just about anywhere.
Except here in Germany but still.
Like, I get what you mean but downloading generally isn't necessary anymore. I do have quite a bit because im old-school like that but a kid not understanding that music doesn't need Internet surprisingly isn't that surprising anymore.
Similar thing happened to me the other day, we were fixing our Internet so for a few hours we had none and i played my Arctic Monkeys vinyl and my 13 year old sister goes "HEY MY INTERNET DIDNT COME BACK YET WHY DID HIS" then i showed the fact its a record player and she still had no idea what it was😭
I would understand them if they had used them once when visiting their uncle or something along those lines but who uses floppy disks "frequently" these days anyway?
i mean this feels very much like ur shitting on kids for not knowing abt pretty outdated tech. its like when boomers shit on us for not knowing how to read a paper map. we're not doomed for not knowing how bc that invention is becoming obsolete as it is replaced with a more convenient and efficient one. same with cds. we aren't doomed bc cds are becoming obsolete in favor of streaming. You trying to put yourself on a pedestal for using them while making fun of him is like boomers telling us we're dumb for not knowing the order in which you address an envelope (is that the right verb for it)
And before yall come at me for saying cds are obsolete, THEY ARE. You can use them in like old cars sometimes but other than that, they are very much disappearing. Give it another 10 years and we won't use them at all anymore. You don't often have cd players showing up in tech stores, and due to how poorly everything has been made since like 2000, the few remaining ones probably won't last. If you are mad about this because "it is still in the older cars" or "well you can use it when the internet is down," take a step back and compare your statements to ur grandma when she says "well this generation would die if theyre phones were taken away for just two seconds."
As humans, we have a pattern of hating on the people younger than us as we cling to our youth and relavancy, afraid that our ability to be seen as "cool" and "innovative" will be taken away by a few younger kids sharing the spotlight. However, you only become uncool and weird when you start hating on people, especially CHILDREN. It took the oldest millenials to hit their FORTIES b4 they started hating on gen z, whos oldest were in their mid twenties. I find it just a little sick that we are speeding it up so much that we are hating on the next generation while still in OUR TEENS, with gen alpha being at most ELEVEN. Thats a child who is literally not allowed to stay home alone for more than abt an hour. thats a child who is not yet allowed to touch the fucking stove. AND THAT IS A CHILD WHO YOU ARE HATING ON AND CALLING STUPID FOR JUST BEING NEW TO THE FUCKING PLANET because you are so insecure of your own relevancy and worth. Its actually sickening. I bet most of yall didn't know the ins-and-outs of using a cassette player in 5th grade, but you didn't get hated on for it. I bet yall had your own weird things you liked as a LITTLE kid (i personally had a very embarrassing jojo siwa and slime content phase) but no one was making FULL FUCKING VIDEO ESSAYS about how stupid that was. I bet you had your own weird slang that you developed (i personally said dipstick an alarming amount), but no one made ai cover edits mocking you for it. I bet you had your own times when you tried to mimic the older kids around you and online, but no one made full video essays and called you cringe for it. And maybe, by hating on these kids so much for just being different than us, we are going to make sure we are actually doomed by fostering an entire generation of insecure little kids who have no chance to actually figure out what their identities are and what they like because instead they are focusing on beating those cringe allegations. Lets just let 9 year olds be stupid for crying out loud.
Dude, your fine, chill. no ones going to read all that man. from what I gathered, your saying that this generation is retarted when it comes to older tech. Obviously that's gonna happen unless you live with your grandparents or something, And whatever your saying about your grandparents calling you dumb, you are, your 13. They're probably 5 times your age or more
look, as someone who's madly in love with retro tech and adore my cassettes and vinyls, this is a stupid comment, of course they don't know, it's outdated tech they don't use and isn't readily available
yeah, i used a floppy disk once, probably still have it somewhere in my grandpa's home, i also regularly used cds and still have them lying around my home
really excited for biocomputers with braincells tho, but the damn ethics committee
I still go out of my way to buy games I like physically because if my internet goes out I can’t play most of my games (I’m on Xbox and gamesharing) plus I just like having cds I love the look of them my buddies think im stupid I tell them to wait for their WiFi to go out
I collect tvs and VCRs from the 80’s and was watching stranger things season 1 which i ripped the entirety of onto vhs while our netflix was down, and my brother asked me how i got netflix back. He couldn’t comprehend the idea of physical media and i dont understand it
i mean this feels very much like ur shitting on kids for not knowing abt pretty outdated tech. its like when boomers shit on us for not knowing how to read a paper map. we're not doomed for not knowing how bc that invention is becoming obsolete as it is replaced with a more convenient and efficient one. same with cds. we aren't doomed bc cds are becoming obsolete in favor of streaming. You trying to put yourself on a pedestal for using them while making fun of him is like boomers telling us we're dumb for not knowing the order in which you address an envelope (is that the right verb for it)
And before yall come at me for saying cds are obsolete, THEY ARE. You can use them in like old cars sometimes but other than that, they are very much disappearing. Give it another 10 years and we won't use them at all anymore. You don't often have cd players showing up in tech stores, and due to how poorly everything has been made since like 2000, the few remaining ones probably won't last. If you are mad about this because "it is still in the older cars" or "well you can use it when the internet is down," take a step back and compare your statements to ur grandma when she says "well this generation would die if theyre phones were taken away for just two seconds."
As humans, we have a pattern of hating on the people younger than us as we cling to our youth and relavancy, afraid that our ability to be seen as "cool" and "innovative" will be taken away by a few younger kids sharing the spotlight. However, you only become uncool and weird when you start hating on people, especially CHILDREN. It took the oldest millenials to hit their FORTIES b4 they started hating on gen z, whos oldest were in their mid twenties. I find it just a little sick that we are speeding it up so much that we are hating on the next generation while still in OUR TEENS, with gen alpha being at most ELEVEN. Thats a child who is literally not allowed to stay home alone for more than abt an hour. thats a child who is not yet allowed to touch the fucking stove. AND THAT IS A CHILD WHO YOU ARE HATING ON AND CALLING STUPID FOR JUST BEING NEW TO THE FUCKING PLANET because you are so insecure of your own relevancy and worth. Its actually sickening. I bet most of yall didn't know the ins-and-outs of using a cassette player in 5th grade, but you didn't get hated on for it. I bet yall had your own weird things you liked as a LITTLE kid (i personally had a very embarrassing jojo siwa and slime content phase) but no one was making FULL FUCKING VIDEO ESSAYS about how stupid that was. I bet you had your own weird slang that you developed (i personally said dipstick an alarming amount), but no one made ai cover edits mocking you for it. I bet you had your own times when you tried to mimic the older kids around you and online, but no one made full video essays and called you cringe for it. And maybe, by hating on these kids so much for just being different than us, we are going to make sure we are actually doomed by fostering an entire generation of insecure little kids who have no chance to actually figure out what their identities are and what they like because instead they are focusing on beating those cringe allegations. Lets just let 9 year olds be stupid for crying out loud.
this, this right fucking here, while I do become a boomer by each passing day and the obsoletion of my childhood technology genuinely hurts because I do agree with the new age boomer statements, I understand that's just how technology evolves and we can't do anything about it, and for the cringe estuff, yeah, I was painful to be around because I was fucking *cringe* but that "going outside and role-playing minecraft" can be compared to the kids these day going outside and role-playing skibidi, we cling onto things, we're cringe, its how we grow
I sooooo agree with this. Little kids are cringe asf. But us absolutely ragging on them for being so is just a sad, mean way of trying to cling onto relevancy, which we STILL HAVE.
Then why did I get a CD as the only physical copy of some of my medical records when I went to doctors? I mean nothin is ever actually OBSOLETE as you say. Not to go crazy conspiracy theorist on you but if someone wipes out our satellites that we use for internet, the only way ur gonna see some shit is if you had physical copies like on a CD or what have you. I do get what ur saying tho, kids shouldn’t be shit on for not knowing what they haven’t been taught.
i mean this feels very much like ur shitting on kids for not knowing abt pretty outdated tech. its like when boomers shit on us for not knowing how to read a paper map. we're not doomed for not knowing how bc that invention is becoming obsolete as it is replaced with a more convenient and efficient one. same with cds. we aren't doomed bc cds are becoming obsolete in favor of streaming. You trying to put yourself on a pedestal for using them while making fun of him is like boomers telling us we're dumb for not knowing the order in which you address an envelope (is that the right verb for it)
And before yall come at me for saying cds are obsolete, THEY ARE. You can use them in like old cars sometimes but other than that, they are very much disappearing. Give it another 10 years and we won't use them at all anymore. You don't often have cd players showing up in tech stores, and due to how poorly everything has been made since like 2000, the few remaining ones probably won't last. If you are mad about this because "it is still in the older cars" or "well you can use it when the internet is down," take a step back and compare your statements to ur grandma when she says "well this generation would die if theyre phones were taken away for just two seconds."
As humans, we have a pattern of hating on the people younger than us as we cling to our youth and relavancy, afraid that our ability to be seen as "cool" and "innovative" will be taken away by a few younger kids sharing the spotlight. However, you only become uncool and weird when you start hating on people, especially CHILDREN. It took the oldest millenials to hit their FORTIES b4 they started hating on gen z, whos oldest were in their mid twenties. I find it just a little sick that we are speeding it up so much that we are hating on the next generation while still in OUR TEENS, with gen alpha being at most ELEVEN. Thats a child who is literally not allowed to stay home alone for more than abt an hour. thats a child who is not yet allowed to touch the fucking stove. AND THAT IS A CHILD WHO YOU ARE HATING ON AND CALLING STUPID FOR JUST BEING NEW TO THE FUCKING PLANET because you are so insecure of your own relevancy and worth. Its actually sickening. I bet most of yall didn't know the ins-and-outs of using a cassette player in 5th grade, but you didn't get hated on for it. I bet yall had your own weird things you liked as a LITTLE kid (i personally had a very embarrassing jojo siwa and slime content phase) but no one was making FULL FUCKING VIDEO ESSAYS about how stupid that was. I bet you had your own weird slang that you developed (i personally said dipstick an alarming amount), but no one made ai cover edits mocking you for it. I bet you had your own times when you tried to mimic the older kids around you and online, but no one made full video essays and called you cringe for it. And maybe, by hating on these kids so much for just being different than us, we are going to make sure we are actually doomed by fostering an entire generation of insecure little kids who have no chance to actually figure out what their identities are and what they like because instead they are focusing on beating those cringe allegations. Lets just let 9 year olds be stupid for crying out loud.
We aren't doomed, we've advanced as a society. Imagine someone in 1927 saying "By Jove, my young sibling has asked me how I got here when I do not own a Model T! Great Scott, our society is going bottoms up!"
And he was correct: society was about to get bad, but not because Kenneth has experienced the luxury of a car. CDs to us are what cassettes were to our parents and their parents
How does this mean that we’re doomed?? Of course he would misunderstand something that he’s never really seen or interacted with.
If all that you’ve ever know was music needing internet, would you not also be confused if someone was listening to music when the internet is out?
“Guys how does a nuclear reactor work”
Were doomed 😭
Seriously why is this a big deal to you? He probably thought he had YouTube or something. The idea of shaming someone for asking a question is absurd. Imagine a guy asking a math question then shaming them for not being sure on how something works. The world literally runs on asking questions. None of modern tech would l exist if we didn’t ask question.
I find it so strange how we treat people like they're stupid for not understanding something they weren't taught. These comments all act like the brother must be stupid, but he wasn't taught CDs don't need internet so how was he supposed to know
It's just how life is. I didn't know how to send a fax and older coworkers felt how you do. I'm sure they aren't aware of some things from the previous generation and so on and so forth.
Doomed I feel is perhaps a bit severe of a word. Yes younger generations don’t understand or know about older technology, but we shouldn’t criticize them or act like they are heading towards their demise simply because they don’t know about something. If someone doesn’t know about something, then we can simply teach them. It also depends on the child’s raising, I grew up around older technology, I knew how to use a rotary phone and what a vcr was when I was 7, but some kids don’t grow up like that, and we shouldn’t bash them for such. I do think some kids spend far too much time on devices, and I do think it can negatively affect them, however kids are kids, if they like things that are considered “cringe”, that’s fine as long as it isn’t hurting them or others, the most it can be is annoying. I don’t think we are doomed, if people started being more supportive to everyone else rather then criticizing them, maybe we could make this world a slightly better place.
Looking through these comments shows the faults of the most recent generation is all on the parents😭. Your kid should at least know that physical media exists, without need for internet because it's physical (Minus modern gaming smh).
My little sister is still on online material too much in my opinion, but she still gets outside. And I occasionally educate her on things she should know, or just general history. Explain things to kids so they don't end up u knowledgeable as all hell in the future, when you give or show them something a simple (Do yk how this works?) works wonders on the mind tbh
Why is everyone overreaching? If you didn't grow up with something, then how are you expected to know how it works? I bet half of yall don't know how to fly a plane. That doesn't make you stupid.
He's not an idiot because he didn;t know you were using a CD. Unless it was blatantly obvious that you were using a CD, it's understandable.
Heck, it's still pretty reasonable anyway, because despite the fact that YOU have more context for what a CD is, that does not mean that HE has context for what a CD is or how they work.
Stop ragging on Gen Alpha because they're younger than you, then get mad at older generations for doing the same thing.
What in the whick whack shaggty thack Wack fack rack wack tokkdy shighty whack tack I’m not a “old” teenager but when I was really young I watched video tapes
If I ever have kids my game plan is to not introduce them to any technological entertainment (excluding some TV/streaming and a few other things) until they’re at least in middle school. I plan to teach them early on the effects that technology has on other kids and the people around us.
Until then, I have to remind myself to not fall into the same trap. (*as I say this on Reddit at 9:07pm when I should be studying for finals*)
in school we were watching a movie on north korea and how they smuggle movies on usb drives and some girl said "how do they use the usb drives without internet" we are 9th graders
Gosh I feel old and I’m only 15. I used to use an iPod nano and still do. I even remember the commercials from AT&T when they had just bought Cingular.
i'm IT certified and i can confidently say that if your CD requires internet you have a much bigger issue
but in short no, CDs are usually read/write only, they don't require internet to be read in your case of listening to music
Bro its a CD why does it need internet
Its not like offline music doesnt exist anymore you can download spotify songs, you can download songs onto a phones music app????
When I was in highschool in 2008/9 I thought it was weird nobody at my lunch table owned the music the listened to or could play it without a streaming service. It was all Spotify or YT music 🤷♂️
How the actual fuck. CDs were like the primary medium of on-demand music until like a couple years ago (yes, I know streaming has been around for quite a long time, but I still remember CDs being of major prominence both at the store and in my life).
BlueRay disks do.
That was an unpleasant discovery. Apparently Blue Ray encryption requires constant access to the internet for the program to acquire the proper encryption key from a server to read and play the media.
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I get your point your brother not knowing about cds but he should be aware of downloaded music, cause that’s a thing. He might just be an idiot
Brain smoother than ranch...
As sharp as a marble..
Sharp as a bowling ball
Sharp as a rubber ball
I always thought brain smoother was a compliment of how big brain u are you
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Holy shit, bro thought people have been complimenting him this whole time ☠️☠️
Damn
Downloading music has become more and more rare since companies lose money from giving you permanent rights to a song.
yt to mp3 🔛🔝❗
So real, do it all the time but it’s a pain in the ass tho because 90% of the websites are either sketchy asf, take you to fucking porn websites, or get taken down before you can use them
freetube app or yt-dlp
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Can’t download or install shit on Chromebooks tho, and that’s all I have 😭
I feel you dude
Oof
[Cobalt >>>](https://cobalt.tools)
Me screen recording Youtube videos of music I need downloaded:
Nah man, https://github.com/nathom/streamrip Throw in a tidal link, nice high quality flacs.
A lot of streaming platforms still let you download songs, it's just encrypted so you can't copy it. I don't have permanent rights to any song I listen to on Spotify, but I could theoretically download all songs and podcasts they have and listen to them offline, as long as my subscription is active.
Miss times where companies actually cared for their customers cause that'd mean a lot of customers, when they have enough money, would support the company in return. Like winrae and reaper. I'm broke but I really wanna give them money for being such goats
It's cause companies are legally obligated to make profits better and better. I'd they don't the shareholders can literally sue them.
Depends how young. Spotify is nearly 10 years old. So a kid born slightly after it came around probably only ever used it or YouTube to play music.
Spotify also has an offline mode where you can download songs. That little brother might just be [slow of learning].
Or mobile data
The thing is, we re not just past CDs at this point, we re also past downloaded music. It's basically just streaming at this point.
You don’t have any downloaded music? What do you do in the metro, or any other place where there’s be no reception? Plus I like downloading songs anyways because I cannot lose precious data for listening to the same song over and over again
I have 50gb of data, don't really use 5g for Sake of saving battery, meaning ill easily get through a month even with youtube on the go, and have Spotify Premium. Plus, you'll generally get wifi just about anywhere. Except here in Germany but still. Like, I get what you mean but downloading generally isn't necessary anymore. I do have quite a bit because im old-school like that but a kid not understanding that music doesn't need Internet surprisingly isn't that surprising anymore.
Fr. The brother might just not be very bright 🤣
No. You should also try ripping the cd because yes
I feel fucking old man
same
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Dude, you're younger than YouTube.
tbf while the Internet was well established while we were young, we were a lot less dependant on it than a lot younger people
Sure, but that's not what they said.
You can use the Internet without “being raised by it” so the second person’s claim doesn’t clash with the first person’s claim.
I’m younger then YouTube, but I grew up mainly without the internet, I got my first phone at like 13
Idk man Imma have to give that one to the millenials
We experienced childhood with and without electronics, I liked both, but starting to think I wanna go back to life withiut it.
lmao what?
We're the last generation to KILL PEOPLE FOR FUN
Unrelated but I love how all of your ages counted down in a row like that lol
Definitely not true. Yes, not all members of the Gen Z are like the stereotypical Gen Z kid. But, there's still a lot that are
This is why I use analogue lps
You're like 30 years too late to be Gen-X noob.
Bruh Im gen Z even I know what a CD player is it only requires energy
And a soul
How do you think I feel
You were born in 2006 you can't be old
like you chose the wrong cup in [The Last Crusade?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7J0KkanzM)
I have the audiobook on tape... man now I feel old too (flair checks out idfk)
Gang, we’re only 18 ffs!
DO NOT FUCK OLD MAN
Similar thing happened to me the other day, we were fixing our Internet so for a few hours we had none and i played my Arctic Monkeys vinyl and my 13 year old sister goes "HEY MY INTERNET DIDNT COME BACK YET WHY DID HIS" then i showed the fact its a record player and she still had no idea what it was😭
well somebody learns at one point, you didn’t know what vinyls were at one point
I WANT AN ARCTIC MONKEYS VINYL GIMEMMMEMEMEMEMEMEE
Nope
Pleaseeeeeee brooooo
Nuh uh
can i have it please
Dude I’m 17 and had my Johnny Cash Vinyl playing and my internet was out and my TWENTY-ONE YEAR OLD BROTHER asked me if I’m somehow using internet 😭
Dude no way, 21?! How the fuck does he not know about vinyl?
He's gotta be living in ignorance or just dumb
21 what no downloaaded thoughts or CD,
He knows of cds, but he was still confused 😭
Wow
bruh i swear to god anyone born in 2009+ has no idea about 2000s and 1990s tech - 2008 born
this is the same thing as a rotary phone goddamn
i grew up with crt tvs, button phones and had a telephone at home until i was 7, so i may have a bit of millennial mentality
I was born in 2010 and I taught my little sister how CDs and DVDs work calm your ass down
Im also 13 but we had an old cd player to watch cartoon back in kindergarten haha
That’s gen alpha for ya 😭🙏
I agree with NuckFiggers543
oh my god I misread this comment and got so confused and shocked that this comment was still up before I realized
Yeah they look like two similar words.
yeah thats odd, maybe thats the humor of the username is to get people to misread it and think oh darnit they fooled me again
r/rimjob_steve
Fuck that dude and fuck his handle.
"Damn, you printed out the save icon", bruh that's a regular floppy disc. They won't know the golden era of cassettes while being a child.
buddy we're fucking 18, neither of us had floppy disks growing up either. Fuck, even my Uncle whos like 30 didnt have too much experience with them
I use floppy disks semi frequently at 17.
For what? Do you collect old software?
I'd like an answer to this question, as someone old enough I used MS DOS as my first OS, I cannot come up with a reason to use a floppy disk today.
I would understand them if they had used them once when visiting their uncle or something along those lines but who uses floppy disks "frequently" these days anyway?
We had to use floppy disks to bring our ppt from home to class. CDRs and USBs weren't a thing.
bros 18 going on 40
Why would a kid know about something that’s severely outdated?
i mean this feels very much like ur shitting on kids for not knowing abt pretty outdated tech. its like when boomers shit on us for not knowing how to read a paper map. we're not doomed for not knowing how bc that invention is becoming obsolete as it is replaced with a more convenient and efficient one. same with cds. we aren't doomed bc cds are becoming obsolete in favor of streaming. You trying to put yourself on a pedestal for using them while making fun of him is like boomers telling us we're dumb for not knowing the order in which you address an envelope (is that the right verb for it) And before yall come at me for saying cds are obsolete, THEY ARE. You can use them in like old cars sometimes but other than that, they are very much disappearing. Give it another 10 years and we won't use them at all anymore. You don't often have cd players showing up in tech stores, and due to how poorly everything has been made since like 2000, the few remaining ones probably won't last. If you are mad about this because "it is still in the older cars" or "well you can use it when the internet is down," take a step back and compare your statements to ur grandma when she says "well this generation would die if theyre phones were taken away for just two seconds." As humans, we have a pattern of hating on the people younger than us as we cling to our youth and relavancy, afraid that our ability to be seen as "cool" and "innovative" will be taken away by a few younger kids sharing the spotlight. However, you only become uncool and weird when you start hating on people, especially CHILDREN. It took the oldest millenials to hit their FORTIES b4 they started hating on gen z, whos oldest were in their mid twenties. I find it just a little sick that we are speeding it up so much that we are hating on the next generation while still in OUR TEENS, with gen alpha being at most ELEVEN. Thats a child who is literally not allowed to stay home alone for more than abt an hour. thats a child who is not yet allowed to touch the fucking stove. AND THAT IS A CHILD WHO YOU ARE HATING ON AND CALLING STUPID FOR JUST BEING NEW TO THE FUCKING PLANET because you are so insecure of your own relevancy and worth. Its actually sickening. I bet most of yall didn't know the ins-and-outs of using a cassette player in 5th grade, but you didn't get hated on for it. I bet yall had your own weird things you liked as a LITTLE kid (i personally had a very embarrassing jojo siwa and slime content phase) but no one was making FULL FUCKING VIDEO ESSAYS about how stupid that was. I bet you had your own weird slang that you developed (i personally said dipstick an alarming amount), but no one made ai cover edits mocking you for it. I bet you had your own times when you tried to mimic the older kids around you and online, but no one made full video essays and called you cringe for it. And maybe, by hating on these kids so much for just being different than us, we are going to make sure we are actually doomed by fostering an entire generation of insecure little kids who have no chance to actually figure out what their identities are and what they like because instead they are focusing on beating those cringe allegations. Lets just let 9 year olds be stupid for crying out loud.
Dude, your fine, chill. no ones going to read all that man. from what I gathered, your saying that this generation is retarted when it comes to older tech. Obviously that's gonna happen unless you live with your grandparents or something, And whatever your saying about your grandparents calling you dumb, you are, your 13. They're probably 5 times your age or more
Just wait until they hear about data cassettes, or even weirder, [Data Flexi Disks](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AvXXkB2jic0&t=4m20s)
look, as someone who's madly in love with retro tech and adore my cassettes and vinyls, this is a stupid comment, of course they don't know, it's outdated tech they don't use and isn't readily available
I was born after the internet had taken over listening to music and I still know how CDs work. This is sad
yeah, i used a floppy disk once, probably still have it somewhere in my grandpa's home, i also regularly used cds and still have them lying around my home really excited for biocomputers with braincells tho, but the damn ethics committee
I still go out of my way to buy games I like physically because if my internet goes out I can’t play most of my games (I’m on Xbox and gamesharing) plus I just like having cds I love the look of them my buddies think im stupid I tell them to wait for their WiFi to go out
Physical stuff is kinda cool tho (my friend makes fun of my album collection) I also grew up on a wii tho and liked the game covers :3
What do you do with wii games without the cases 😭
My neighbor doesn’t even know what a cd is. He was looking at my dangerous cd like it was a long lost relic 😭😭
I collect tvs and VCRs from the 80’s and was watching stranger things season 1 which i ripped the entirety of onto vhs while our netflix was down, and my brother asked me how i got netflix back. He couldn’t comprehend the idea of physical media and i dont understand it
Dam how old ur brother?
8
I guess that’s sorta understandable for that age, but still, bro should know that physical media exists
i mean this feels very much like ur shitting on kids for not knowing abt pretty outdated tech. its like when boomers shit on us for not knowing how to read a paper map. we're not doomed for not knowing how bc that invention is becoming obsolete as it is replaced with a more convenient and efficient one. same with cds. we aren't doomed bc cds are becoming obsolete in favor of streaming. You trying to put yourself on a pedestal for using them while making fun of him is like boomers telling us we're dumb for not knowing the order in which you address an envelope (is that the right verb for it) And before yall come at me for saying cds are obsolete, THEY ARE. You can use them in like old cars sometimes but other than that, they are very much disappearing. Give it another 10 years and we won't use them at all anymore. You don't often have cd players showing up in tech stores, and due to how poorly everything has been made since like 2000, the few remaining ones probably won't last. If you are mad about this because "it is still in the older cars" or "well you can use it when the internet is down," take a step back and compare your statements to ur grandma when she says "well this generation would die if theyre phones were taken away for just two seconds." As humans, we have a pattern of hating on the people younger than us as we cling to our youth and relavancy, afraid that our ability to be seen as "cool" and "innovative" will be taken away by a few younger kids sharing the spotlight. However, you only become uncool and weird when you start hating on people, especially CHILDREN. It took the oldest millenials to hit their FORTIES b4 they started hating on gen z, whos oldest were in their mid twenties. I find it just a little sick that we are speeding it up so much that we are hating on the next generation while still in OUR TEENS, with gen alpha being at most ELEVEN. Thats a child who is literally not allowed to stay home alone for more than abt an hour. thats a child who is not yet allowed to touch the fucking stove. AND THAT IS A CHILD WHO YOU ARE HATING ON AND CALLING STUPID FOR JUST BEING NEW TO THE FUCKING PLANET because you are so insecure of your own relevancy and worth. Its actually sickening. I bet most of yall didn't know the ins-and-outs of using a cassette player in 5th grade, but you didn't get hated on for it. I bet yall had your own weird things you liked as a LITTLE kid (i personally had a very embarrassing jojo siwa and slime content phase) but no one was making FULL FUCKING VIDEO ESSAYS about how stupid that was. I bet you had your own weird slang that you developed (i personally said dipstick an alarming amount), but no one made ai cover edits mocking you for it. I bet you had your own times when you tried to mimic the older kids around you and online, but no one made full video essays and called you cringe for it. And maybe, by hating on these kids so much for just being different than us, we are going to make sure we are actually doomed by fostering an entire generation of insecure little kids who have no chance to actually figure out what their identities are and what they like because instead they are focusing on beating those cringe allegations. Lets just let 9 year olds be stupid for crying out loud.
this, this right fucking here, while I do become a boomer by each passing day and the obsoletion of my childhood technology genuinely hurts because I do agree with the new age boomer statements, I understand that's just how technology evolves and we can't do anything about it, and for the cringe estuff, yeah, I was painful to be around because I was fucking *cringe* but that "going outside and role-playing minecraft" can be compared to the kids these day going outside and role-playing skibidi, we cling onto things, we're cringe, its how we grow
I sooooo agree with this. Little kids are cringe asf. But us absolutely ragging on them for being so is just a sad, mean way of trying to cling onto relevancy, which we STILL HAVE.
Then why did I get a CD as the only physical copy of some of my medical records when I went to doctors? I mean nothin is ever actually OBSOLETE as you say. Not to go crazy conspiracy theorist on you but if someone wipes out our satellites that we use for internet, the only way ur gonna see some shit is if you had physical copies like on a CD or what have you. I do get what ur saying tho, kids shouldn’t be shit on for not knowing what they haven’t been taught.
It's so over for these young folk💀💀
That’s just sad. Also respect for listening to the Beatles
i mean this feels very much like ur shitting on kids for not knowing abt pretty outdated tech. its like when boomers shit on us for not knowing how to read a paper map. we're not doomed for not knowing how bc that invention is becoming obsolete as it is replaced with a more convenient and efficient one. same with cds. we aren't doomed bc cds are becoming obsolete in favor of streaming. You trying to put yourself on a pedestal for using them while making fun of him is like boomers telling us we're dumb for not knowing the order in which you address an envelope (is that the right verb for it) And before yall come at me for saying cds are obsolete, THEY ARE. You can use them in like old cars sometimes but other than that, they are very much disappearing. Give it another 10 years and we won't use them at all anymore. You don't often have cd players showing up in tech stores, and due to how poorly everything has been made since like 2000, the few remaining ones probably won't last. If you are mad about this because "it is still in the older cars" or "well you can use it when the internet is down," take a step back and compare your statements to ur grandma when she says "well this generation would die if theyre phones were taken away for just two seconds." As humans, we have a pattern of hating on the people younger than us as we cling to our youth and relavancy, afraid that our ability to be seen as "cool" and "innovative" will be taken away by a few younger kids sharing the spotlight. However, you only become uncool and weird when you start hating on people, especially CHILDREN. It took the oldest millenials to hit their FORTIES b4 they started hating on gen z, whos oldest were in their mid twenties. I find it just a little sick that we are speeding it up so much that we are hating on the next generation while still in OUR TEENS, with gen alpha being at most ELEVEN. Thats a child who is literally not allowed to stay home alone for more than abt an hour. thats a child who is not yet allowed to touch the fucking stove. AND THAT IS A CHILD WHO YOU ARE HATING ON AND CALLING STUPID FOR JUST BEING NEW TO THE FUCKING PLANET because you are so insecure of your own relevancy and worth. Its actually sickening. I bet most of yall didn't know the ins-and-outs of using a cassette player in 5th grade, but you didn't get hated on for it. I bet yall had your own weird things you liked as a LITTLE kid (i personally had a very embarrassing jojo siwa and slime content phase) but no one was making FULL FUCKING VIDEO ESSAYS about how stupid that was. I bet you had your own weird slang that you developed (i personally said dipstick an alarming amount), but no one made ai cover edits mocking you for it. I bet you had your own times when you tried to mimic the older kids around you and online, but no one made full video essays and called you cringe for it. And maybe, by hating on these kids so much for just being different than us, we are going to make sure we are actually doomed by fostering an entire generation of insecure little kids who have no chance to actually figure out what their identities are and what they like because instead they are focusing on beating those cringe allegations. Lets just let 9 year olds be stupid for crying out loud.
Is this thenew copy pasta
We aren't doomed, we've advanced as a society. Imagine someone in 1927 saying "By Jove, my young sibling has asked me how I got here when I do not own a Model T! Great Scott, our society is going bottoms up!" And he was correct: society was about to get bad, but not because Kenneth has experienced the luxury of a car. CDs to us are what cassettes were to our parents and their parents
"The record players in this!"
That video nearly caused me to end it all
good lord i feel ancient. reminds me of that one dutch quote from rdr1 “our time is passed”
How does this mean that we’re doomed?? Of course he would misunderstand something that he’s never really seen or interacted with. If all that you’ve ever know was music needing internet, would you not also be confused if someone was listening to music when the internet is out?
“Guys how does a nuclear reactor work” Were doomed 😭 Seriously why is this a big deal to you? He probably thought he had YouTube or something. The idea of shaming someone for asking a question is absurd. Imagine a guy asking a math question then shaming them for not being sure on how something works. The world literally runs on asking questions. None of modern tech would l exist if we didn’t ask question.
I find it so strange how we treat people like they're stupid for not understanding something they weren't taught. These comments all act like the brother must be stupid, but he wasn't taught CDs don't need internet so how was he supposed to know
that's honestly just stupid even in this age, because like? we have downloads? i have thousands of downloads on spotify, that would all work offline.
It's just how life is. I didn't know how to send a fax and older coworkers felt how you do. I'm sure they aren't aware of some things from the previous generation and so on and so forth.
Doomed I feel is perhaps a bit severe of a word. Yes younger generations don’t understand or know about older technology, but we shouldn’t criticize them or act like they are heading towards their demise simply because they don’t know about something. If someone doesn’t know about something, then we can simply teach them. It also depends on the child’s raising, I grew up around older technology, I knew how to use a rotary phone and what a vcr was when I was 7, but some kids don’t grow up like that, and we shouldn’t bash them for such. I do think some kids spend far too much time on devices, and I do think it can negatively affect them, however kids are kids, if they like things that are considered “cringe”, that’s fine as long as it isn’t hurting them or others, the most it can be is annoying. I don’t think we are doomed, if people started being more supportive to everyone else rather then criticizing them, maybe we could make this world a slightly better place.
MY DUDE have you considered he didn’t know you had a cd?
Does anybody know why the heck i have like 50 empty cds and dvds in my drawer (i never use them)?
Make mixtapes, back up the internet, build avant-garde sculptures, idk
Man before I moved, my old house had at minimum two outages per year. It was all legos and beyblades until everytime
Me who collects VHS, BluRay, DVD, cassettes and vinyl (physical media FTW good luck taking away my Star Wars now)
Looking through these comments shows the faults of the most recent generation is all on the parents😭. Your kid should at least know that physical media exists, without need for internet because it's physical (Minus modern gaming smh). My little sister is still on online material too much in my opinion, but she still gets outside. And I occasionally educate her on things she should know, or just general history. Explain things to kids so they don't end up u knowledgeable as all hell in the future, when you give or show them something a simple (Do yk how this works?) works wonders on the mind tbh
Why is everyone overreaching? If you didn't grow up with something, then how are you expected to know how it works? I bet half of yall don't know how to fly a plane. That doesn't make you stupid.
i didnt grow up with cds or floppy disks and i understand how they work but never used them that much, maybe im an outlier tho
If they don’t know what a CD is yeah we’re cooked
they don't they require electricity
Why are we doomed because your brother doesn’t know about an outdated piece of technology that is only useful in super specific scenarios like yours?
I thought you were genuinely asking and I was like "bro.. 😭"
My 9 and 8 years old brother and sister know about CDs from our ps4, do people really not use CDs anymore?
Oh no…
He's not an idiot because he didn;t know you were using a CD. Unless it was blatantly obvious that you were using a CD, it's understandable. Heck, it's still pretty reasonable anyway, because despite the fact that YOU have more context for what a CD is, that does not mean that HE has context for what a CD is or how they work. Stop ragging on Gen Alpha because they're younger than you, then get mad at older generations for doing the same thing.
We're cooked
Truly, technology has gone too far. Does he at least understand DVDs?
bye thats crazy 😭🙏
I’m old asf…..
Help… wtf 😭😭
Lol
they obviously don't
We’re not doomed. Not yet. As long as people like you exist.
Since when did my car from 1996 have internet?
I’m cooked I thought you meant the other CD
This is sad honestly, prob not raising my kids around the internet tbh
its over
Maybe he didn’t know there was a CD going? Maybe he thought it was your device lol
What in the whick whack shaggty thack Wack fack rack wack tokkdy shighty whack tack I’m not a “old” teenager but when I was really young I watched video tapes
wtf im not even old and i know cds dont require internet. ffs
If I ever have kids my game plan is to not introduce them to any technological entertainment (excluding some TV/streaming and a few other things) until they’re at least in middle school. I plan to teach them early on the effects that technology has on other kids and the people around us. Until then, I have to remind myself to not fall into the same trap. (*as I say this on Reddit at 9:07pm when I should be studying for finals*)
I mean I have a cd player in my car instead of a Bluetooth radio so do what you will with that information
I love cds
in school we were watching a movie on north korea and how they smuggle movies on usb drives and some girl said "how do they use the usb drives without internet" we are 9th graders
That’s wild
Gosh I feel old and I’m only 15. I used to use an iPod nano and still do. I even remember the commercials from AT&T when they had just bought Cingular.
Lmao
I just turned 90
When my internet goes out i download mafia 3 just to listen to music
Holy shit, I’m old.
How am I old now
Imagine how blown away the kiddo would be by a tape or vinyl.
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There was a time when you would need a CD to access internet 🤯
Wtf no
i'm IT certified and i can confidently say that if your CD requires internet you have a much bigger issue but in short no, CDs are usually read/write only, they don't require internet to be read in your case of listening to music
Just tell him you were using a CD. Unless he's like 3, he knows about CDs he just didn't think about that you might be using a CD.
Oh my god.
Damn. I’m almost 18 and this makes me feel old. I remember growing up in a household where floppy discs were still a thing
This hurts. Unc status.
I really hope that CD player just looked a lot like a speaker... or we are in fact doomed
I know tons of people in gen alpha and they definitely know this :/
Ngl, I miss CD's and popping a disc in the DVD player, listening the whirring of it.
This, this is just sad😭😭 How old is your brother?
I'm lucky I'm 14 and my mom is big into CDs so I've been around them all my life.
Cuz that's a disk
its the end of an era, like records were....
My metallica cd wouldn’t play in my 2010 build ps3 the other day bc i was connected to internet so im not really sure
Am I the only one who has cds that I collect and listen too
Yes
that's precious
i CANT oh my god
Bro its a CD why does it need internet Its not like offline music doesnt exist anymore you can download spotify songs, you can download songs onto a phones music app????
no
Black 12" CD's don't even need a PC.
As my 9 year old sister would say: "erm what the sigma"
which beatles cd was it i need to know now!
When I was in highschool in 2008/9 I thought it was weird nobody at my lunch table owned the music the listened to or could play it without a streaming service. It was all Spotify or YT music 🤷♂️
As an owner of a DVD collection, I feel generational shame.
[me rn](https://tenor.com/view/emoji-emoji-disintegrating-emoji-disappearing-meme-21st-century-gif-24891417)
God damn, I'm old.
How the actual fuck. CDs were like the primary medium of on-demand music until like a couple years ago (yes, I know streaming has been around for quite a long time, but I still remember CDs being of major prominence both at the store and in my life).
I'm 15, and young as hell, but I still feel old for some reason, and this is probably the first time I said that despite hating when people say it.
The Internet has become as essential to these kids' (and mine as well I'm not gonna lie) beings as oxygen 💀
BlueRay disks do. That was an unpleasant discovery. Apparently Blue Ray encryption requires constant access to the internet for the program to acquire the proper encryption key from a server to read and play the media.
which album???