theyre at least 20 years old my dad has 3 of these 92-CD holders, filled with pirated windows from 95 through 7, pirated PC and Xbox games, pirated movies and some drivers
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Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that's when I was watching them.
Yup, it's full of late 90's and 2000's anime.
Hell yeah! You should check for a lot of those if they're available still via the normal means. A lot of the old and good fansubs are just outright missing, probably because a lot of people did what you did and then life happened and the availability fell along with the demand for fansubs for new series.
For example, a lot of the big fansub names are gone, and their seeds moved on. I know the content, for a lot of fansubs still exists in forms like you have here, but it isn't available on the internet and is at risk for bitrot and being lost media.
See if you can find ways to seed stuff for a while. I know at least I have a couple dozen stalled out 0 availability of them that I'm just waiting to magically appear online one day, that I myself will then try to seed. Maybe you'll make somebody's day, or year.
Edit: also, some fansubs that are lost end up being the only sources of the original version. It's rare, but it does happen.
Yeah, I'll do that when I have time. Though first I need find out if I lost the data or not. If not maybe I can even seed them, who knows. However most of this media were rmvb files, so I don't think I can recover fansubs as text.
You should probably rescue those before they rot. Disk rot is a thing
Let's see if they held up for ~20 years. Honestly no idea what I'll find out. Hopefully I can check soon.
Good old Lain, I should rewatch that.
Somehow it's still set in the present day, present time.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!
Agreed! I should rewatch that.
Planetes and Cowboy bebop, the best animes ever made
I'll put Seirei no Moribito above them all, mostly because nobody ever seems to even know about it and it breaks my heart. The novel was good, and the anime ended up ten times better, somehow!
Hey, I've never seen this one, thanks for sharing! I'll definitely watch.
Planetes, Gungrave... nice taste :)
Heh, thanks! :)
good selection! 🤌
DVDs? Cant be that old.
2000 was a quarter of a century ago.
Thanks, calculating the years that past since 2000 is always the hardest for me.
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12x re-writable DVDs would be from the mid 00s.
Aren't read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?
Definitely from what I remember. They were used as some kind of floppy disks with more storage, but they sucked.
I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.
DVDs didn't have that issue, fortunately.
In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it's mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there's a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.
Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.
I don't think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.
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I had a binder full of video CD's because my laptop only had a CD-RW drive. It usually took two disks to hold an entire film.
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Those DVD’s look fly.
Lain. Nice.
24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔
Not that old, this was more of a recap archive (CDs to DVDs). Hint: There is Monochrome Factor's first episode. No idea why I didn't wait for it to be finished first though.
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