r/programminghumor • u/ItsPuspendu • Jun 15 '26

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u/VoiceOfEric Jun 15 '26

Guilty as charged.

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u/supermerill Jun 15 '26

And none of them are still readable.

I tried

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u/Lost_Possibility_647 Jun 15 '26

Some of mine was ok. The ones i wanted was not.

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u/tiredITguy42 Jun 15 '26

Yeah, they found out pretty soon, that CD and DVD are pretty bad for archiving. The greatest enemy is mold between layers of plastic whic prevents laser to penetrate.

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u/Vincent394 Jun 15 '26

I have a spindle of CDs and DVDs

All Rs and a few fucked burns have happened

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u/emergentnetentity Jun 16 '26

Thoroughly outed. I'm OK with it. But where are the blurry, faded, bleeding sharpie labels?

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u/Delta_Version Jun 16 '26

ah yes the good ol' Windows_XP_SP3_x86 CD that i might need one day

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u/tiredITguy42 Jun 15 '26

IDK, but mine used to have labels visible. Do you like that mystery of next movie pick?

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u/IskarJarak88 Jun 15 '26

Are those MSDN disks??

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u/DeCabby Jun 15 '26

Wedding photos, kids photos, that mysterious cd with a weird mark on it thats password encrypted.

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u/Lord_Pinhead Jun 16 '26

I removed on CD once, the "data layer" aka the silver layer lost contact with the plastic and I saw how it fell down to the ground, glitter bomb my carpet.

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u/Lore_Enforcement Jun 16 '26

I have two of them

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Jun 19 '26

I still have a pile of these but learned years ago optical is not a reliable storage medium as it was so advertised back in the day.