I suppose not everyone had the hardware to cut their own vinyl, so being able to stick the disky thingy in the bleep bloop machine and make your own diskies at home sounded kind of bizarre at first
It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.
It was so popular you could walk into a Walmart and buy blank cds and put it into most computers that have a cd drive in the last 15 years and write it from Windows Media Player.
Even today you can still do it for cheap.
USB external CD drive with write capabilities: $18.99
In fairness to this post, I’m old enough to have asked this same question on the other end lol.
I suppose not everyone had the hardware to cut their own vinyl, so being able to stick the disky thingy in the bleep bloop machine and make your own diskies at home sounded kind of bizarre at first
It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.
It was so popular you could walk into a Walmart and buy blank cds and put it into most computers that have a cd drive in the last 15 years and write it from Windows Media Player.
Even today you can still do it for cheap. USB external CD drive with write capabilities: $18.99
https://www.newegg.com/p/105-00B4-00001?item=9SIAKF3DSX2734&%3Bcm_sp=SP-_-1860010-_-0-_-2-_-9SIAKF3DSX2734-_-Cd+drive-_-cd|drive-_-8
50 Blank CDs, $16.60 https://www.newegg.com/verbatim-52x-700mb-cd-r/p/N82E16817507007
If you wanted to write to a CD more than once you could buy CD-RW’s which had the ability to be formatted (wiped clean) and used again.
The hardware to write disks was so cheap it became standard. The cheapest of laptops or desktops would have the ability built in. example:
$168.99 - Cheap junk computer from Walmart (I would not recommend that computer, just figured it would show just how cheap a computer gets that has it built in) https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-Latitude-E5420-Laptop-Intel-i3-WiFi-DVD-CDRW-250GB-Win-10-Professional-HDMI/376791632?wmlspartner=wlpa&%3BselectedSellerId=100001344&%3Bgclsrc=aw.ds&%3B=&%3Badid=22222222228376791632_100001344_153828919326_20723081503&%3Bwl0=&%3Bwl1=g&%3Bwl2=m&%3Bwl3=679332641651&%3Bwl4=pla-2235097983966&%3Bwl5=9013636&%3Bwl6=&%3Bwl7=&%3Bwl8=&%3Bwl9=pla&%3Bwl10=129884431&%3Bwl11=online&%3Bwl12=376791632_100001344&%3Bveh=sem&%3Bgad_source=1&%3Bgclid=Cj0KCQiAy9msBhD0ARIsANbk0A_ZhAcoOfd9b3WACPKd_QXPuq3NIZoFnxorRXOK1Xx-CwQz7SO1jSAaAlfhEALw_wcB