This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

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    I had those at home when I was a kid.

    I was born around the 2000s

    It’s not really that old lol

    Granted, I was in a developing country, so the timeline of technological development is not quite the same (People’s Republic of China).

    Do people in the west still have Cassettes in the 2000s?

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      Those of us who can remember used those to save programs. It could take an hour or more if you had a large enough tape save a single file.

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      A lot of people did: home, portable, car. But a lot of people had also left them behind for ordinary CDs, CDs full of MP3s and dedicated MP3 players like Rios and iPods.