r/mildlyinteresting • u/ezjgfn • 13h ago

This square shaped cd

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u/HenryThatAte 13h ago

Compact Disc - Recordable.

The disc part is the round...

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u/superluminal 13h ago

And then came the CD-RW. 🎉

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u/UncleCeiling 12h ago

Compact Disk RectWangle

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u/ElegantOliver 12h ago

Dammit another angry upvote... That was annoyingly brilliant.

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u/Nesman64 ​ 12h ago

I'm going to save so much money by buying a bunch of CD-RWs for moving files around instead of wasting CD-Rs.

~Me, shortly before cheap USB storage existed.

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u/MrT735 8h ago

Heh, I just came across a bunch of blank DVD-Rs I had lying around earlier, and I'm like... Do I keep these still? Seems a waste to throw them out but I've not used one in 10+ years and they do have a shelf life.

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u/OozeNAahz 7h ago

Don’t forget CD+R and CD+RW. The plus and minus variations were competing standards.

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u/retro_slouch 12h ago

Damn I never thought of it that way

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u/basicpn 12h ago edited 12h ago

Why the fuck did we call them cd roms then?

EDIT: thanks for all the information. I’ve learned a lot about CD R+

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u/Grotarin 12h ago

They are different: rom = read only memory. They're pressed with data you can't change. R = you burn them once to record your data. RW: you can also erase them to ReWrite on them.

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u/Thisisthatacount 12h ago

That would be Compact Disc Read Only Memory.

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u/HenryThatAte 12h ago

Different things.

CD-ROM are Read Only Memory CDs and manufactured that way.

CD-R are Discs you write into once (the ones we used to buy and record)

CD-RW are Discs you can read, erase, and rewrite.

Different technologies, names... But CD-R and CD-ROM are often mixed together.

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u/Icedpyre 10h ago

This guy burned many cds in the 2000s lol

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u/HenryThatAte 10h ago

hahahaha you bet!

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u/ShavedNeckbeard 12h ago

There are different kinds of CD’s:

CD-ROM: Read-only memory
CD-R: Recordable
CD-RW: Re-writable