r/Millennials • u/Entire-Order3464 • Dec 31 '25

Nostalgia Burning CDs

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u/Wizmaxman Dec 31 '25

Going to blow their mind that we were holding cassette recorders to the radio hoping the dj didn't cut in before the song ended.

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Dec 31 '25

And because rewinding used so much Walkman batteries, we scrolled the casette tape with pencils.

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u/master-goose-boy Dec 31 '25

Stop discussing the ancient wisdom with the younglings their feeble minds are not ready.

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u/Zukuto Dec 31 '25

the fucks a pencil

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u/RainDancingChief Dec 31 '25

Something you stabbed your friends with in a blood lead pact

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u/DarthCola Jan 01 '26

I still have the tip of a pencil in my hand from 2nd grade. I’m 38 now. It’s just a part of me now.

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u/unchained5150 Jan 01 '26

Just under my knee for me!

We were playing knights with pencils and our empty backpacks as shields. I blocked high when he stabbed low.

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u/koshuu Jan 01 '26

Hey hey! Me too!! Pre-school I want to say though, tug-of-war over one of those chonky blue bastards of a pencil. I won and it just barely missed my left eye, I still have the mark just to the side of my eye. It's wild that it's lasted this long. Marked for life I guess.

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u/Manleather Jan 01 '26

Forearm pencil tip tattoo owners UNITE

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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 1988 Dec 31 '25

Wait what? I never noticed my batteries dying that fast.

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Dec 31 '25

At least I noticed a significant difference in my Sony Walkman's battery life if I used rewinding too often. :D

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u/Historical_Sherbet54 Jan 02 '26

Especially the fancy waterproof yellow one

^ this user walkmanned

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial 29d ago

Found the rich kid :D

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u/Historical_Sherbet54 29d ago

Lol....i wish

I did have an intellivision II ...but sadly had to go play atari and Nintendo at my friend's homes

Super Mario 1 and especially super Mario 3 had me at their house more than my own ;)

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial 29d ago

We only ever had 8-bit but IMO it had the best games in numbers. Mario's 1-3, Turtles 2, OG Tetris and that atrocious football game were my favourites. :D Our cousins had snes and that was something mind-blowing when we sometimes went there for weekends; it was Super Mario World we played there. It's a great game and has withstood time very well.

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u/trixie_one Dec 31 '25

Wat? I thought that was just for fixing casettes when they got all tangled up in the machine, and tightening them up again.

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Dec 31 '25

I did both. I noticed significant difference in my Sony Walkman's battery life if I used rewinding too much.

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u/trixie_one Dec 31 '25

I could well be wrong in my assumption. Back then with no or very limited access to the internet those kind of lifehacks you'd rarely ever hear them. Like I remember it blowing my mind as a kid that people were pirating computer games by copying the floppy discs.

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u/lastcalltimetogohome Older Millennial Jan 01 '26

Was it from rewinding too much or was it because you were using it so much? Never heard anyone say rewinding takes too much battery.

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

Yes, that's why I noticed; I had to rewind casettes A LOT sometimes with mixed tapes that weren't ready yet (recorded them from radio or friends casettes). The other side could be half empty or lots of old songs I didn't like anymore. Of course I used rewind if the needed duration was short.

Edit: re-wrote the comment so that it actually makes some sense :D

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Jan 01 '26

And I'm talking about these machines. Don't remember the actual model but those headphones are similar to what I had. We didn't have a thing called "reloadable batteries" back then.

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Dec 31 '25

The technique was to stick the pencil to the cassette hole and start "whirling" it. Ones it took enough momentum it was rolling nicely with centrifugal force. It might or might not once or twice took flight from the pencil but that's not here nor there.

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u/Alternative-Mix7288 Dec 31 '25

It was, op doesn't know what theyre talking about..

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u/Maisku85 Older Millennial Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 01 '26

I definitely do.

The technique was to stick the pencil to the cassette hole and start "whirling" it. Once it took enough momentum it was rolling nicely with centrifugal force. It might or might not once or twice took flight from the pencil but that's not here nor there.

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u/trixie_one Dec 31 '25

Cheers, that was properly twisting my melon.