Jet fuel can't melt CD-ROMs!!

A second disc has hit the tower

turn on the tv; doesn't matter what channel 😭

Uh oh. Another soft, doughy manchild

Zangief: “Quick change the channel” 📺

After the hours were used up, my brother and I would use the stove eye to slightly melt them and then add them to what became the ugliest, biggest, most non-functional wind chime you ever saw! 😂

I used to use those ISP CD's as drinks coasters 😂

I still have some of the diskettes - almost all of them have some bad sectors on them, they were the cheapest diskettes.

frisbee's, coasters, or wall art

@@cmdraftbrn I thumb tacked them to my bedroom ceiling as a teen

Depend how fast he goes .He has been posting things since 15 years, so things that were brand new when he started might appears odd and obsolete now.

@@Tigrou7777 So if he paces himself, he'll never run out of oddities!

Nah, he’ll just be doing what Nostalgia Critic and AVGN have done: move their cutoff date and start reviewing newer and newer stuff.

@@ferretyluvMost PS3/X360 era games are older now than a lot of the games he reviewed earlier on were at the time of his videos, I think it's 100% fair to move it as time passes.

Nah, he'll just keep reviewing Sims 4 Addons, that will never dry up.

It's my pleasure to provide them!

KZfaq's automated captions are usually more reliable than they used to, I tried it on one of my videos and all it needed was some minor cleanup with capitalisation and doing names properly

@@LGR I think I've said it before, but I'm another who appreciates the customized captions as well!

@@Zippy_Zolton I actually miss when YT's captions were horribly bad. It made for some hilarious times.

@@TroutButter yeah whenever I was bored of the video I watched I'd turn on auto-generated captions and giggle at the results also I'm specifically referring to the captions that generate in KZfaq Studio for your own videos, they're slightly better than on-the-fly when playing someone else's video without captions also also auto-translate will still give goofy results and depending on the language it will probably never be refined due to differences in dialect and culture

The culture, is damn good.

I can't believe I can actually remember all of these "retro" hardware and oddware when they were brand new 😂 Time flies eh.

I cant believe i only discovered this channel two months ago and have almost watched every episode. sigh. help me.

This is literally the comfiest channel on the planet, there is this atmosphere of calm and nostalgia that just disconnects us from the rest of the planet for 30 minutes.

Clint ages like wine

My first thought too!

Judging by how flimsy it looks it wouldn’t be _very_ problematic…

I dont think that there is any lock on the slides so you can just pull them out by hand.

not nearly as annoying as when those big dvd/cdrom jukeboxes like LGR mentioned CRD looking at crap out. We had a kenwood unit aas a 200 unit dvd player in the early 2000s. Absolute nightmare when it broke down, because now your whole movie collection is in jail.

I figure if it's truly broken you could take the back off, and either push the trays out from behind. Or take the entire motor part off and just pick them out from the back.

flippin 'eck

@@LGR a direct collab I want to see happen one day ... even though the big pond is in between (Even if it's just doing some puppet skits about old tech together)

nice

Hoped someone else would notice it, i noticed it immediately

@@dolbyman they did in the cassette tape winders video

Populating each one to its full capacity sounds like a dream job!

Anyone got 9,525 disks?

I wonder what the limiting thing was to stop at 127

Also, to create a transparent case for it (so you can see how it works like in the end of the video)

@@Broken_robot1986 USB bus perhaps

I was just thinking that this thing would be a lot more useful more DVDs/BluRays (whether movies or video games). The jewel cases for CDs were relatively compact, but cases for DVDs and BluRays are much larger. You’d need a LOT more space to store 75 discs in their cases compared to CDs.

It's completely useless and take up HDD space on the PC. Its more energy intensive then just having the cd's stacked and grabbing what you need. The only one use case i could see useful is having it set up for quick reference of many items spread over multiple Cd's like documents/personal picture/personal audio Notes. etc. I would not recommend this for the everyday normal user.

​@@facetubetwit1444did we ask if you'd recommend it for specific users?

@@facetubetwit1444 How much space do you think this archival system would take up? My PC has 4 TERABYTES of storage and that's with no trying on my end. Even 20 years ago this program wouldn't have taken up much space. I've got a better idea: keep your boring opinions to yourself and just let people have fun with silly hardware. Alright, on your bike, piss off.

@@facetubetwit1444 Everyday normal user just uses a phone nowadays.

Yeah, that was my thought as well: The cases go on the library shelves so that your customers can see what's in stock. Hopefully they'll be descriptive enough.

For years U.K. shops and supermarkets only put the cases out on the shelves and you had to pay for and collect the CD at a counter. In the local supermarket that was the Tobacco counter. Quite cunning as you would realise that a bad CD habit was still cheaper than cigarettes.

*Allegedly* officer🤭

burned dvds is how we shared games and stuff around before usb sticks got cheap

Around 2008 when Netflix still did most of its business from disks, we visited some friends that had moved away and now were working at one of Netflix's call centers. They had some amusing stories from one of Netflix's "Loss Prevention" teams (who they described as "NYC Wise Guys with pinkie rings") that would come into the office very once and awhile. Apparently the Loss Prevention teams biggest thing at that time was to "pay a visit" to customers who were on a "so expensive, nobody is gonna do it" unlimited disc plan. It was originally designed for schools or daycares or something like that, but a bunch of NYC bodegas oddly enough had this plan. Turns out these bodegas were basically reserving "one of everything" and then renting them out to customers for 1/2 of Blockbuster prices, and more than covering the cost of the plan. The LP team would just go, get pictures/video of them running the operation and that was enough for Netflix to cancel their plan and charge them for the outstanding disks, but this "displeased" the Loss Prevention team who really wanted to "teach them a lesson about respect"

Just wish he’d learn to pronounce “register” correctly. (He uses a hard G like “guitar” instead of a soft G like “genius”.)

Too right, his stuff is really good, right up there with Technology Connections and a number of other outstanding channels as well

They're called "Pepperami" in the UK, same mascot, the adverts from the 2000s were WILD!

The Australian retro game streamer Macaw45 became completely obsessed with and addicted to Bifi last year while on holiday in Austria and Switzerland. It was so sad to see another young life ruined by meat-based snacks 😿

​@@HOXIKKthose adverts with the bloke with a mullet and his colleagues, working in a random company, talking about girls they dated?

​@@sandrinowitschM...and the Japanese guy saying something like "going crazy like a school girl". Yeah, exactly that one.

Thank you again for sending it over!

Ehrenmann 😂✌️

@@googleBot89 your name fits you so well bestie :3

_Frage:_ Was that „Beefy“ game produced by the company that offered the snack roll of the same name? 🌭🇩🇪😇

@@dieseldragon6756 yes the game was a promotion game ( In German Werbespiel ) from the same company which produces the Bifi snacks mini salami and Bifi Roll.

That definitely aged like milk 🥛

People were searching for "towers" on that day.

😂 so messed up, brilliant!

​@@emeraedbruh 😂

Please don't say the word tower

Wishing her a happy birthday tomorrow

Happy birthday to your daughter!

Were they also used by radio stations for computer-instigated playback? I remember seeing an inside view of _Pirate Radio_ (An amusing name for a station that held a legitimate OFCOM broadcasting licence! 🏴‍☠📜🤣) and their music repository was made of four automated CD jukeboxes (Two columns in each, and maybe about the size of a small fridge) rather than the usual array of CommPak carts. 😇

​@phoenix71232 Don't do that to us, lol

Isn't that also what happened to imdb?

I think I remember that, yeah...

Somewhat kinda like Wikipedia, Mozilla, RedHat, Creation Club for Bugthesda games and GitHub. All of them are based on open source concepts but they've been hijacked/bought by people who want money and/or power, in varying degrees. :/ Im doing my part by not giving any money for inferior experience, 15+yrs of Linux laif.

For the record, on the software end this is exactly what NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) does.

I've held onto that 2000s habit of backing up files into optical discs (bunch of BDs now added to the CDs and DVDs) and I've printed myself a few little towers to hold both the slim cases and normal ones, but yeah had to buy a lot of like 25 of those slim cases for a bunch of those burned discs that were inside those dreadful CD/DVD holders made of fabric/thin plastic... THAT was a 2000s thing I just don't miss anymore, good riddance! The cases are far nicer and easier to get what I want (...I just gotta ass myself to print the labels already to know what I need instead of skimming through).

Adrian Black enters the room

When I see the server rack being powered up at work... with all of the disc arrays flashing away, I can't help but grin like a complete idiot 😂

this game ... childhood memories :D

As a British viewer who's familiar with Bi-Fi, I have to wonder if that game was the _wurst_ to ever hit the German shareware market?... 🌭🇩🇪🙃

I chukled when I saw the CD : Bifi is also very common here in Belgium, but the Bifi Roll was certainly one of the most savagely mocked food product in the years after its release. Basically the survival food you'll only eat when you are all out of shoes... 😅

... and of course it's pronounced like "beefy", because that's what it's supposed to be the germanized spelling for it.

@@NQR-9000 This also applies to Bifi without the roll. It's basically an overpriced salami stick that tastes more like the wasteful double plastic wrapping around it than actual salami. Even the texture and chewiness feels highly artificial and not like food at all.

Even in the event of database corruption/loss you should still have been able to eject all of the disks via the software. If that wasn't possible with a corrupt database, maybe that explains why it was also capable of operating in a standalone fashion via the buttons? 😇

@@dieseldragon6756 yes, I could still get them out, but you can imagine how long it took to empty two towers... And how much time I spent scanning the disks and entering information into the software. I guess I should have had better backups, or printed out a directory of what was where ... But as they say, hindsight is 20/20

My app was buggy, too. Same thing as it was the time wasted taking all my disks out. I never went back since all the time was wasted.

I had one as a kid and yep that brings back memories

Imagine Clint yelling like juicy j, "shutdafuqup!!"

Pleasantly surprised to see Gravity Kills though. Dunno if I've heard them played _anywhere_ since the '90s!

Half on a sack

those things can't be brought back and if you did find them, it wouldn't be the same. Be strong and go along!

Lol

I think in your list is Technology Connections missing 😢

@@MrPunker0007AKA The Internet’s Weird Appliance Guy.

TWO THOUSAND DISCS?!

@@md_vandenberg Yes, but often not filled to 100% capacity and sorted by category. Kodak photo CDs, stock audio/video/image collections, textures, models; those kinds of things. By 2001 it was all migrated to HDD on a bunch of servers and that was the end of that nonsense.

@@Dr.W.Krueger These basically remained relevant until the point that hard drives became cheap enough to just image this data instead of keeping it on discs.

I said the same thing! Haha. I had to check the comments to see who else noticed that.

Hmm, i wonder how much of a bitch this would be set up as a server storage.

I have SD cards with three times as much data. Scary

imagine it with BD-XL quad layer discs, almost 10TB total, you can have twice that in a single hard disc now, but still.

@@dv7533 That's the thing: I think HDD data density has exceeded what optical disks can manage in practice. If you can get 6TB onto a 2,5" laptop HDD - And four of those fit into the same 3,5" form factor taken up by about 15 standard optical discs stacked bare - Each optical disk has to have a capacity of 1,6TB to break even in terms of data storage for a given unit of space. 📀 Thing is; HDDs will always have quicker data access times compared to optical disks being loaded by even the fastest robots, so for anything beyond archival applications (Where the optical disks are likely to be more resilient than HDDs over the longer term) HDDs will always win out on performance, especially in business and consumer applications. 😇 Me personally? I wouldn't mind an optical disk file that employed LaserVision-format disks... 📀🏋😁

Why stop there? Dual layer blu ray would get you 3750GB!

I had a 6 disc CD changer in my 2001 Firebird and loved that damn thing.

I had an '06 Nissan Sentra with a stock 6-disc changer plus the single disc in-head. Kept my 6 favorite discs loaded at all times for when the radio was boring me.

Ho ho ho, now I have a Cd tower

Come out to the coast. Have a few discs!

*"TALK TO ME WHERE ARE MY OLD TEKNO CDS? WHERE ARE THEY OR SHALL I SHOOT ANOTHER ONE?"*

"Well go ahead...show him the connectors. It's a Molex!"

The way you organised those drives I figured you were from the street Al. In my youth, in my youth.... Okay I'm done

Makes sense, that seems like what would happen with any regular use!

Oh yes it is a really well made game, I played in 1994 the hell out of the game.

@@FlosVintech I wish i had access to that game back in the days! Would have done likewise for sure ^^

Awww ❤️ who doesn't!

By 2005, I was habitually imaging every single disc I was using, including music CDs (for the MP3 player, of course). Hard drives were more than cheap enough so that these solutions made no sense anymore. Even in 2003, the fate of these things was sealed.

@@no1DdC that's fair and I did the same with iTunes. However I imported alot music cds from Japan for anime and games. Those where not available on digital storefronts back then.

Did you paint it red so it went faster?

@@ZacHawkins42 More Stakka!

Are birbs real in your country or are they a conspiracy like the US ones?

"While the RSPB is a charity, of course, but hardly the tweeds and green woolies brigade." I suppose that latter part made sense in the 1990s, at least to someone. A jumble sale takedown, maybe?

Already dreaming of that #heavenly

Load it with 74 Never Gonna Give You Ups and one another album, and play the game known as Ricksian Roulette.

Or copying 74 extra copies of his Greatest Hits album

What a waste! You want to load only one single cd with two tracks into it?

Never gonna lose those discs

I honestly think your solution is just as good as this hardware.

Seven terabytes of what kind of data this abomination should store?

seems like a system a government would use in the 90s before hard drives got into the 10s of gigabytes, tape backups were around but i could see this being more of an instantaneous system for a specific program/file.